Lena Monroe has spent years perfecting the role of the good wife : writing fairytales by day, playing the part of Mark’s flawless partner by night. But when a car accident lands her in the arms of Dr. Daniel Carter, her husband’s old rival and the man with a scandalous past, Lena’s carefully constructed world starts to unravel.
Vanessa swore she was done with men who only wanted to own her. After Daniel, the brilliant, cruel neurosurgeon who seduced her away from her old boss and then left her with scars and secrets, she’s tired of Doms who confuse pain with power. She’s even more tired of pretending she doesn’t miss the man she left behind.

That depends on which side of the story you’re standing on.
I write romances where power is negotiated, desire is complicated, and love is never harmless. My characters cross lines deliberately, and they pay for it. I’m drawn to the moment where restraint fails—and to what survives afterward.
Trained as a psychologist and certified as a yoga teacher, I’m fascinated by contradiction. Control and surrender. Discipline and obsession. What breaks us—and what rebuilds us differently.
When I’m not writing, I’m teaching, reading between silences, or quietly mapping out my next story.
If you think you understand forbidden passion, you may not have met mine yet.
Contact: cararavelli@gmail.com
Publisher: Maison Carazen Geneva

In Geneva, “happily ever after” is only the beginning of the negotiation.
Lena Monroe didn’t fall in love with Daniel Carter for the fantasy. She chose him knowing the cost: his past, his scars, his children, his ghosts. What she wants now isn’t perfection. It’s a life that feels real—mornings with coffee, teenagers slamming doors, pages to write, a man who doesn’t let her disappear.
On paper, she has it.
A home with Daniel.
Lucas, fifteen, testing every boundary he can find.
His eleven-year-old daughter who adores Lena and quietly tries to fix what the adults are too tired to say aloud.
And a first dark romance ready to be published, where she finally puts her own shadows on the page.
But Geneva doesn’t care about paper.
While Lena learns how to exist in a family that isn’t built on appearances, Daniel is pulled deeper into the world he thought he could keep separate: the off-grid lab, the Calix project, the line between saving lives and rewriting what life means.
Mine is a dark, psychological romance set in Geneva, where Lena Monroe, a wife who has spent years disappearing inside her own life, crosses paths with Dr. Daniel Carter, the rival her husband tried to destroy. What begins as tension turns into dangerous recognition, pulling them into a world of attraction, betrayal, and quiet power games that reach far beyond their marriage. A standalone novel in the Sceau Blanc Saga, Mine explores what it means to finally choose yourself, even when love is the most dangerous risk on the table.
Note to readers:
This novel was previously published under the title Hostile Takeover in the Forbidden Passion series. It has been revised, re-edited, and repositioned as Mine, a standalone novel in the Sceau Blanc Saga.
If you have already read Hostile Takeover, you have encountered an earlier version of this story.
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In Geneva, “happily ever after” is only the beginning of the negotiation.
Lena Monroe didn’t fall in love with Daniel Carter for the fantasy. She chose him knowing the cost: his past, his scars, his children, his ghosts. What she wants now isn’t perfection. It’s a life that feels real—mornings with coffee, teenagers slamming doors, pages to write, a man who doesn’t let her disappear.
On paper, she has it.
A home with Daniel.
Lucas, fifteen, testing every boundary he can find.
His eleven-year-old daughter who adores Lena and quietly tries to fix what the adults are too tired to say aloud.
And a first dark romance ready to be published, where she finally puts her own shadows on the page.
But Geneva doesn’t care about paper.
While Lena learns how to exist in a family that isn’t built on appearances, Daniel is pulled deeper into the world he thought he could keep separate: the off-grid lab, the Calix project, the line between saving lives and rewriting what life means.
Le Sceau Blanc—the secret circle that quietly shields the Calix project through Mason and Liam Morel—calls it protection. Lena calls it something closer to a leash.
I was Daniel Carter’s perfect submissive. Until he left me broken, used up, and hollowed out.
Now I’m stitching myself back together one medical residency shift at a time. Healing. Control. I swore no man would ever own me again.
Then Mark Monroe strides back into my life. CEO of Geneva’s most powerful medical empire, my former boss, and the man I always secretly admired, even before everything changed.
He wants revenge on Daniel for stealing and discarding his wife. I just want Daniel gone from my mind forever.
Mark has become harder over the years, crueler, the kind of man who takes what he wants, including other men’s wives. I know I should stay away.
But this weekend, when his voice drops low and he says, “On your knees, baby girl,” every promise I made to myself crumbles.
I’m terrified of surrendering again. Terrified of how much I still want him.
Yet the way he touches me, protects me, claims me, it isn’t just dominance. It’s something deeper. Something that makes the broken parts of me feel whole.
Mark Monroe doesn’t want my submission.
He wants to own me. Completely. Mind. Body. Soul.
And the most terrifying part? I’m starting to believe I was always meant to be his.
BROKEN RULES is a dark, obsessive romance packed with corporate medical intrigue, healing through raw power exchange, and a possessive CEO who’ll burn the world down for what’s his. Spicy. Gritty. Emotionally brutal. HEA guaranteed, but you’ll bleed for it.
After many glowing reviews and others that were more puzzled, I am writing this here, plainly and without hesitation:
Noah is dying. In the silence of a hospital room in Geneva, his girlfriend Élise and his best friend Liam find themselves bound by a promise made on the edge of loss.
Years later, Élise and Liam try to build a life from the ashes of grief and loyalty, more out of faithfulness than passion. Élise wants to believe in healing, to turn loss into commitment. Liam becomes her refuge, but he hides a storm inside him that she cannot calm.
When Sophie Dubois returns, everything shifts. Sophie has always loved Liam and dreamed of being the one who could embrace his darkness and accept his need for control. She is willing to give him what Élise cannot, even if it consumes her.
In a city ruled by secrets and silent codes, three lives brush past each other. They are caught by desire, haunted by guilt, and threatened by the invisible rules of an ancient society where weakness is never forgiven.
This is not a story about betrayal. It is a story about survival, about choosing between safety and hunger, between the path that seems wise and the fire that might finally set you free.
Burn With Me is a dark psychological romance about the price of truth, the power of surrender, and the courage it takes to love without losing yourself.
Important Note from the Author
This book is not a BDSM manual and it is not an American-style dark romance. There is no mafia, no gratuitous violence, and no scenes included just to shock.
This is the story of a young man, Liam Morel, torn between his true nature and what the world expects of him. He is imperfect, dominant, sometimes harsh, often lost. The Sceau Blanc, a Swiss secret society, is built on psychological power, tradition, and impossible choices. It is never about physical brutality.
This book contains explicit scenes, mental and emotional manipulation, power games, grief, and trauma. If you are looking for a gentle romance or a practical D/s guide, this is not the book for you.
Read with caution, or better yet, with your heart open and ready to face a real story.
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THE OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK OF BURN WITH ME