The Gilded Cage

<p>When twenty-two-year-old Kai Shaw is uprooted from quiet small-town life and dropped into the gleaming ruthless towers of New York he expects culture shock-not a war. After his father's death Kai is taken in by his sister Amara a senior VP at Thorn Industries the empire built by legendary tyrant Charles Thorne. But the empire is crumbling under the rule of Charles's prodigal son Jaden: a man raised to be perfect powerful and untouchable-and now determined to burn his inheritance to the ground.</p><p><br>Kai's plan is simple: keep his head down survive the city and protect what's left of his family. Instead he finds himself summoned by Jaden himself drawn into a lethal game of sabotage blackmail and corporate espionage. Every secret he uncovers reveals another layer of armor around the icy CEO-and another crack in the gilded cage that has trapped them both.</p>