Overview

Seven days. One penthouse. No escape. After a brutal attack leaves bodies in their wake, Bella Romano does the only thing she can to protect the woman she's fallen for: she locks them both in her private sanctuary—a fortress in the sky where no one enters and no one leaves. Alexandra Chen should be terrified. She's trapped forty-seven floors above Boston with a woman who kills without hesitation. A woman who looks at her like she's something to be claimed. Owned. Kept. Instead, she's never felt safer. Inside these walls, Bella's rules are absolute. Ask permission to speak. To eat. To sit. It should feel like imprisonment. It feels like relief—the first peace Alex has known since this nightmare began. As the days blur together, the protocols become rituals. The rituals become intimacy. And the intimacy becomes something neither of them expected: a surrender that feels like strength. But the Russian mob hasn't forgotten them. Nikolai Petrov is closing in. Alex holds a memory she didn't know she had—witness to a murder that could bring down the Bratva forever. And when the safe house is breached, the women who found each other in darkness must fight their way back to the light. Some cages are prisons. Some are sanctuaries. And some... some are exactly where you belong. The collar she offers isn't captivity. It's a choice. IN CAMERA is Book 2 in the IN CONTEMPT trilogy. This dark mafia lesbian romance features captive romance elements, 24/7 power exchange, forced proximity, explicit BDSM content, and a cliffhanger ending. Begins immediately after PRIMA FACIE. Trigger warnings: Captivity themes (consensual), explicit BDSM, violence, trauma recovery, breath play (consensual).