When perfection becomes prison, and submission becomes survival.
Grace
I've spent my life following rules. My parents' rules, society's rules, the suffocating expectations that have shaped every breath I've taken. Sheltered and controlled, I've never known what it means to truly choose. Until choice is ripped away entirely.
I wake up in darkness, bound and helpless, selected for something far worse than my worst nightmares. I'm to become a "Doll". A perfectly trained, utterly obedient companion for the wealthy and depraved. But as terror gives way to something darker, I find myself drawn to the very man breaking me apart. His praise becomes my oxygen, his touch both torment and salvation. In the depths of my captivity, I begin to crave the very submission that should destroy me.
Mikhail
I have perfected the art of breaking beautiful things. As the Morozov syndicate's most skilled trainer, I transform stolen men and women into flawless Dolls, living toys crafted for their masters' darkest desires. I tell myself I'm saving them, that my brutal methods ensure their survival in a world that would otherwise consume them. Each Doll I create is a masterpiece, but none have ever been mine to keep.
Then she arrives, and everything changes. Her natural submission calls to something primal in me, something that remembers the boy who once cherished dolls before the world taught him they could be broken. For the first time, I face an impossible choice: complete the training that will send her to another man's bed, or risk everything to claim the one Doll I can never let go.
Can Grace find freedom in surrender? Will Mikhail choose duty over desire?
When love blooms in the darkest places, who decides what's worth saving?
A pitch-black romance where the line between savior and destroyer disappears, and the most dangerous cage is the one you learn to love.
Grace
I've spent my life following rules. My parents' rules, society's rules, the suffocating expectations that have shaped every breath I've taken. Sheltered and controlled, I've never known what it means to truly choose. Until choice is ripped away entirely.
I wake up in darkness, bound and helpless, selected for something far worse than my worst nightmares. I'm to become a "Doll". A perfectly trained, utterly obedient companion for the wealthy and depraved. But as terror gives way to something darker, I find myself drawn to the very man breaking me apart. His praise becomes my oxygen, his touch both torment and salvation. In the depths of my captivity, I begin to crave the very submission that should destroy me.
Mikhail
I have perfected the art of breaking beautiful things. As the Morozov syndicate's most skilled trainer, I transform stolen men and women into flawless Dolls, living toys crafted for their masters' darkest desires. I tell myself I'm saving them, that my brutal methods ensure their survival in a world that would otherwise consume them. Each Doll I create is a masterpiece, but none have ever been mine to keep.
Then she arrives, and everything changes. Her natural submission calls to something primal in me, something that remembers the boy who once cherished dolls before the world taught him they could be broken. For the first time, I face an impossible choice: complete the training that will send her to another man's bed, or risk everything to claim the one Doll I can never let go.
Can Grace find freedom in surrender? Will Mikhail choose duty over desire?
When love blooms in the darkest places, who decides what's worth saving?
A pitch-black romance where the line between savior and destroyer disappears, and the most dangerous cage is the one you learn to love.