{"product_id":"captive-empire-of-desire-book-one","title":"CAPTIVE : Empire of Desire — Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe came to his table expecting threats. He offered her a deal instead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLea Rousseau is twenty-three years old, working three jobs, finishing her master's thesis, and slowly drowning alongside a father whose gambling debts have reached the wrong people. She doesn't scare easily — fear has been the background hum of her life for so long she's stopped hearing it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDamien Kavinsky is the kind of man rooms rearrange themselves around. Billionaire. Calculated. Five years of keeping every relationship transactional, every door locked from the inside.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen a cocktail waitress spills Scotch on his shirt and offers — with trembling hands and a balance of $300 — to pay for it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe finds her the next morning. The offer is simple: three months as his public partner, attending galas and board dinners, convincing his investors he's the kind of man who stays. In exchange, her father's $152,000 disappears.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe signs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHe rewrites the terms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow she's living in his penthouse, sleeping down the hall from a man who reads her thesis abstracts at 2 AM, who notices when her desk height is wrong, who looks at her like she's the one variable in his empire he didn't account for.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLea knows exactly what this is. She's too smart not to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe problem is — so does he.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA slow-burn forbidden contract romance set in Montreal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epigraph-e","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48339131990274,"sku":"EMPIRE-1-EB","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/3600\/0002\/files\/auboutdumonde_1.jpg?v=1786896219","url":"https:\/\/shop.epigraph-e.ca\/products\/captive-empire-of-desire-book-one","provider":"Epigraph-e","version":"1.0","type":"link"}