She breaks into a cursed manor to steal a relic. She leaves carrying a fallen angel's mark-and the gods' attention. Relic thief Cambria slips past wards and whispers into a house that breathes like a beast, hunting a velvet-wrapped artifact that promises to unmake fate. Instead she finds Rhett-beautiful, ruined, and bound to the manor by chains he once wore willingly. Their collision is ritual and ruin; desire wakes something buried in bone and gold, and the walls themselves begin to watch. As the relic stirs and old divinities take notice, Cambria is dragged from thief to temptation to weapon, torn between the man who would claim her and the power that calls her to claim herself. Altars turn to battlegrounds, kisses to covenants, and every choice carves a new scar in the dark. Fallen angel. Haunted house. Soulbound heat. When the chains tighten, will she remain the prey who ran the warded halls-or become the temple that makes the heavens bleed? Golden Chains Unravel is a high-heat dark paranormantasy romance with obsessive devotion, ritual magic, and explicit "worship" scenes. Book One of Chains of Desire.