A talent-agency founder rejects a marriage that made her smaller. Her own desk, an unfinished request for help, and an elevator she cannot open give this very dark romance its sharpest questions about choice.
Lilith tries to keep her mother’s treatment going after her family loses its place in the pack. Confiscated keepsakes and impossible wages make this dark captivity premise painfully concrete.
Opening review · Based on the story prologue and chapters 1–8