Maison Carazen is an independent publishing house founded in Geneva in 2024 by author Cara Ravelli.
Its authors write across genres and under distinct voices, united by a shared refusal to play it safe.
For seven years, Lena Monroe has lived a life defined by appearances.
A devoted wife. A caring mother. A woman who learned how to disappear inside her own story.
Her only escape exists in the pages of a private manuscript, where her unmet desires and unspoken longings are finally allowed to breathe.
Dr. Daniel Carter enters her life when she least expects it. Brilliant, controlled, and quietly intense, he awakens something in her she believed was lost. Their connection unfolds slowly, shaped by restraint, intimacy, and a pull neither of them can ignore.
Beneath the calm surface lies a past marked by resentment and unresolved wounds, ties that bind them more deeply and more dangerously than either realizes.
As truths surface and loyalties are tested, Lena must face a choice that will redefine her life. Remain invisible, or risk everything for a love that finally sees her.
Hostile Takeover is an emotionally driven contemporary romance about identity, desire, and the courage it takes to choose yourself when love becomes a reckoning.
The complete novel of Liam Morel and Sophie Dubois’s story.
Years ago, in a hospital room heavy with antiseptic and unfinished promises, Noah made his best friend Liam and the woman he loved swear something neither of them truly understood.
A promise that would change all their lives.
Now Noah is gone.
But the promise remains.
Liam Morel and Élise Adler have built their lives around it—around guilt, silence, and the ghost of a man who should still be there. Control is the only way Liam knows how to survive. Élise clings to the life she believes Noah wanted for her.
And then Sophie Dubois comes back.
Sophie has always burned for Liam. Always known the darkness behind his perfect restraint. She should stay away from him—and from the fragile life Élise is trying to hold together.
But some desires refuse to stay buried.
In Geneva’s most dangerous circles, where power hides behind old money and older secrets, love is never simple and loyalty can become a weapon.
Sooner or later, someone will have to break the promise.
Burn With Me is a dark, emotionally charged romance about grief, obsession, and the dangerous line between control and surrender.
Explicit romance — for mature readers.
A DARK MAFIA CAPTIVE ROMANCE
I never planned on surviving him. Or myself.
Callan Russo should be dead. Instead he’s alive and furious, locked in a battle with doctors, enemies, and his own heart. And I’m the only thing in the world he wants to keep.
But Julia Rossini wasn’t coming for Callan.
She was coming for me. For the brother I’ve been hiding for five years. For the secret I buried so deep I almost believed it didn’t exist.
Now it’s all surface. All burning.
There’s nowhere left to run. Not from Julia. Not from the truth.
Definitely not from Callan. I tried that. All it got me was heartbreak and a bullet wound.
The only way out is through.
I ran from Callan Russo.
New city. New name. New bar where nobody asks questions. I was finally breathing again.
Then he walked through the door.
He didn’t drag me back. Didn’t make a scene. Just sat at the end of my bar, ordered a whiskey, and looked at me like I’d never stopped being his.
He gave me an address. Told me where to find him.
Said he wasn’t asking for anything.
We both knew that was a lie.
You ran. I came after you. Now choose — but we both know you already did.
You’re Not Fast Enough is a short, steamy dark mafia romance with a possessive alpha hero, a feisty heroine who should know better, and an ending that will leave you breathless. Part of the Russo Control series — reads best after Go Ahead. Run.
They hunted me to Geneva. I let them.
Julia Rossini wants my brother. Her fixer is already watching him. And the city that glitters like a secret doesn’t care who bleeds on its streets.
Callan Russo is supposed to be my monster. But he’s bleeding through his bandages trying to protect a man he’s never met — because that man is my brother.
Forty-eight hours. One war. And the mafia king who stole me has become the only thing standing between my family and destruction.
I won’t run. Not this time. Some fires you have to walk through.
Carter Dynasty Trilogy, Book 2
She tried to choose safe. She tried to be a good wife, a good mother, the woman who could make herself whole by force of will and perfectly filtered posts. But the hunger never left. Daniel Carter still lives under her skin, haunting every touch—even while her husband tells the world he’s proud to love a “dark romance queen.”
Now Lena Monroe is Mara Black—dangerous, honest, finally visible. But the more she feeds the world her stories, the more Daniel pushes her from fantasy into addiction. Late night texts. Lingering shadows. The promise: you’re not just writing it, you’re living it now.
Mark thinks he can protect her, own her, even play her games. But Daniel knows better.
Some desires can’t be buried.
Some men refuse to let you go—even when you beg them to.
Some women can’t be kept safe, because when the fire’s inside you, safety just means you burn slower.
Yours is where pretending ends—and true surrender begins.
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit, Dual POV, deeper obsession, even bigger stakes.
Book 2 of The Carter Dynasty Trilogy.
For mature, messed-up, and dangerously hungry hearts only.
She perfected the art of invisibility.
He perfected the art of obsession.
Lena Monroe has everything: a powerful husband, a beautiful Geneva home—a life that looks flawless from the outside. But inside, she’s disappearing fast. Her only true escape? Writing forbidden, filthy novels under a secret pen name. Her words are dark… and definitely not for public consumption.
Enter Dr. Daniel Carter: brilliant, dangerous, out for revenge against the man who destroyed his career (hint: Lena’s husband). Seducing Lena was supposed to be his weapon.
But then Daniel stumbles on Lena’s secret pages—her unfulfilled fantasies, her hidden cravings, every dark desire she’s too scared to say out loud. Now? Destroying her husband isn’t enough. Daniel wants to give Lena every wicked thing she’s written about—whether she’s ready or not.
When the man sent to break you becomes the only one who truly sees you…
Game over for everyone.
Mine is book one of The Carter Dynasty Trilogy—a dark romance loaded with obsession, power plays, and oh-so-dirty words.
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Mature content, obsessive antihero, power dynamics, cliffhanger ending!
Audiobook available on Spotify.
Previously published as Hostile Takeover in the Forbidden Passion series, now fully revised and re-edited.
He refused to stand when I walked into the room.
That was his first mistake.
I should have ignored him.
I should have shut him down.
But Jake Brenner doesn’t bow.
He watches. He waits. He gets closer.
And somehow… I let him.
"Jake Brennan always said I was prettiest when I was honest.<br
He had no idea how rarely that was."
I don’t do closure.
I do curses.
New Orleans is full of ghosts, secrets… and men who should know better than to cross me.
They never do.
Now there’s a vampire who won’t leave.
A wolf who won’t back down.
And a hunter who looks at me like I’m the sin he’s been waiting for.
I should stop.
Instead… I add them to the list.
A DARK MAFIA CAPTIVE ROMANCE
He kidnapped me for my brother’s debt.
One night to prove I’m worth keeping.
I should run.
I should hate him.
But Callan Russo doesn’t chase women, he owns them.
And I just became his favorite game.
He gave me until sunrise to escape.
I ran.
He’s faster.
Dark mafia erotica. Explicit content. Kidnapping. Obsession. No safe words.
THIS YEAR, LOVE IS THE DEADLIEST MAGIC OF ALL.
Every year, thirteen black-sealed invitations slip through Geneva’s shadows, summoning strangers, lovers, and liars to the legendary Villa Diodati. The rules? Thirteen guests. Thirteen stories. Every tale must be true or the Villa takes a piece of your soul as payment.
But this isn’t some bougie masquerade with overpriced wine and moody lighting. The masked host is none other than George Byron himself. Yes, that Byron: poet, scandal-magnet, and, thanks to a two-hundred-year-old curse, the Villa’s immortal master of ceremonies. For centuries, he’s seduced and discarded, desired without memory, lusted without love. Just the way the curse likes it.
Until Mira Hartley stumbles into the garden—tipsy, reckless, and absolutely unimpressed by dead poets with god complexes. She doesn’t flinch. She doesn’t swoon. She laughs in Byron’s face. And when he kisses her, it’s not temptation—it’s a warning. Because for the first time in centuries, Byron feels something he shouldn’t: hope.
As the night unravels, each guest confesses their darkest truths—affairs, betrayals, obsessions, and secrets that bite. The Villa listens. The Villa judges. The Villa is always hungry.
But this year, the curse is restless. The witch who started it all is watching. And Byron and Mira are about to learn what happens when you break the rules in a house built on lies.
Masks on. Hearts exposed. Welcome to the party.
Dare you tell the truth?
Seven nights. Seven stories. Zero rules.
Behind every door, Valentine’s is anything but sweet:
forbidden confessions, midnight mistakes, and nights that spiral out of control…
Dive into these seven steamy novellas, where romance doesn’t play nice—and desire always gets messy.
You never know…
The next wild love story might be yours.
The plan was seven exes. Neat. Categorized. Color-coded. Caroline Winter ended up with nine. Ten if you count the drummer in Zurich whose name she never learned.
She’s a psychologist. She knows exactly why she makes bad decisions. She makes them anyway.
Seven Shades of Ex is the story of a woman who stopped calling her exes mistakes and started calling them research.
After a destructive relationship with Daniel Carter, she finally rebuilt her life. Her rules. Her control.
Until Mark Monroe walks back into it.
The powerful CEO she never truly forgot.
The man who still knows exactly how to make her lose control.
One night in Zurich.
One hotel room.
One rule she swore she would never break again.
But when desire returns this fiercely, resisting might be the most dangerous mistake of all.
Broken Rules is a dark, sensual second-chance romance set in Zurich.
Standalone novel from the White Seal Saga.
HEA guaranteed.
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.
He should’ve let her go. Instead, he watched her walk away, still imagining her taste, still craving her body.
Three years later, Sophie Dubois is back in Geneva. Fiercer, sharper, badder than before, and she’s got only one thing on her mind: destroy everything Liam Morel has built to keep her out.
Liam’s life is perfect on paper. He’s got Elise, the “good girl” he promised to protect, and a glittering city that worships at his feet. But none of that keeps him up at night. Sophie does. The filthy memories. The bleeding need. The unspoken truth—that he’d burn the world for another taste.
She wants him obsessed.
He wants to keep his promises.
But when Sophie’s lips brush his ear and her fingers slide up his thigh, even loyalty starts to look like a kink.
Torn between craving and conscience, Liam has to choose: stay in the light, or follow Sophie into the dark.
Get it NowHe should’ve let her go. Instead, he watched her walk away, still imagining her taste, still craving her body.
Three years later, Sophie Dubois is back in Geneva. Fiercer, sharper, badder than before, and she’s got only one thing on her mind: destroy everything Liam Morel has built to keep her out.
Liam’s life is perfect on paper. He’s got Elise, the “good girl” he promised to protect, and a glittering city that worships at his feet. But none of that keeps him up at night. Sophie does. The filthy memories. The bleeding need. The unspoken truth—that he’d burn the world for another taste.
She wants him obsessed.
He wants to keep his promises.
But when Sophie’s lips brush his ear and her fingers slide up his thigh, even loyalty starts to look like a kink.
Torn between craving and conscience, Liam has to choose: stay in the light, or follow Sophie into the dark.
Never Enough continues the story begun in Almost Yours.
Before the promise, there was love.
At eighteen, Élise Adler falls for Noah Callahan—the boy who teaches her how to live beyond duty.
Their first love becomes the vow that shapes everything to come.
Power, guilt, and the forbidden spark that breaks every rule.
Élise & Noah
I never believed in love that could ruin you.
Not until him.
At eighteen, my life was already decided—study psychology at UniGE, join the Sceau Blanc like every Adler before me, and never, ever lose control.
Then I met Noah Callahan.
Brilliant, infuriating, impossible.
He argued with professors, laughed at the rules, and made me question everything I was raised to protect.
He wasn’t a rebellion; he was revelation.
The boy who showed me how to live outside of duty, how to feel without permission.
Days blurred into nights, lectures into stolen glances, and suddenly the future felt like it was ours.
Perfect. Endless. Untouchable.
Until the day the world stopped.
And one test result changed everything.
The Almost Series · Book Three
He found her in his cabin. Bare feet. Cast iron skillet. No last name.
Cord Harlow has enough problems — he’s working land his brother sold out from under him, waiting for his chance to take it back. He doesn’t need a woman with secrets hiding on the property.
But the storm’s coming. And he can’t make himself send her out into it.
A grumpy cowboy, a woman on the run, and three days locked in together by a Montana winter.
Standalone. Explicit. HEA.
Her car broke down. His ranch was the only shelter for miles.
Kane Kent doesn’t take in strays — but the moment Riley Hale stepped onto his porch, soaked and stubborn and refusing to be afraid of him, he decided she could stay.
Just until the storm passed.
That was three days ago.
This is a standalone cowboy erotic romance. Please check content notes before reading.
Ruin Me, Daddy is a dark, high-heat billionaire cowboy romance featuring a possessive alpha hero, secret baby, and second chance tension set on a powerful Montana ranch. It is perfect for readers who love dominant ranchers, emotional intensity, and addictive, angsty love stories.
She ran from the only man who ever made her feel safe. Now he’s found her… and he’s keeping both her and his son.
Mage thought she escaped Jesse Kent — cold, ruthless billionaire rancher who owns half of Montana and ruins women for fun. One forbidden night. One broken rule. One baby she never told him about.
Three years later he drags her back to his ranch with one rule:
“You’re mine now, little girl. You don’t run. You don’t hide.
And when I tell you to call me Daddy while I breed you again… you say ‘yes, Daddy’.”
Dark, filthy, and utterly addictive.
He runs a city. She hit two cars simultaneously.
He never had weaknesses. Then she unrolled from a carpet.
He hasn’t wanted anything in six years. Then she crashed into his life — literally.
Enzo Castellano runs Indianapolis with iron precision and zero exceptions. Sarah Wright runs red lights and ruins parking lots.
He should walk away. He can’t.
Some sins are worth every consequence.
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She ran. He followed. And nothing was ever the same.
Elena Carter never planned to get caught in the middle of a mafia war. But when Callan Russo steps into her life — ruthless, possessive, and completely unapologetic about it — running stops being an option.
In his world, trust is a death wish. Love is a weapon. And obsession? Obsession is the only thing keeping her alive.
The Russo Control is the complete four-book dark mafia romance series — raw, addictive, and utterly unputdownable. Expect betrayal, danger, morally grey men who don’t take no for an answer, and a love story that will wreck you in the best possible way.
This collection contains dark themes and mature content intended for adult readers.
After a catastrophic Tinder date and three glasses of the cheapest Merlot her liver can tolerate, Chloe swears off men. Five minutes later, she signs a contract with the devil.
Yes, literally. No, she wasn’t sober.
Now she is trapped in a supernatural dating game where every match comes with a catch, every kiss feels like a bad idea, and walking away might not be an option.
Her checklist is simple: don’t fall in love, don’t get possessed, and definitely don’t swipe right on Satan… but have you seen his profile pic?
Between dangerously seductive strangers, rules that keep changing, and one very powerful man pulling the strings, Chloe is about to learn that some dates are unforgettable, some are deadly, and some don’t end when the date is over.
I inherited Velvet. A club where every room is a sin… and every sin has a name I used to love.
To claim it, I have to spend one night with each of them.
Seven exes.
Seven mistakes.
Seven chances to lose control.
I should hate them.
Instead… I remember exactly why I didn’t.
But someone changed the rules.
And in Velvet, desire isn’t the most dangerous thing.
Power is.
I made a promise to a dying man : Take care of her, Liam. No matter what. I did. I buried the ruthless part of me and built a life on guilt that looked like love. Then Sophie Dubois came back. She was the first who ever knelt for me, and I never forgot. Now Geneva’s elite is watching, the Sceau Blanc expects perfection, and every time I touch her, my world catches fire.
I loved a ghost before I loved Liam Morel. When Noah died, Liam saved me. But love born from grief always cracks eventually. Then Sophie appeared and I saw the man I loved come alive for someone else. I tried everything to keep him: submission, silence, perfection. I gave him everything he asked for… until there was nothing left of me.
I knelt for him once. Not for pleasure. For mercy. Four years later, I came back to finish what I started. But in Geneva, the Sceau Blanc controls everything—marriages, alliances, legacies. Liam Morel is their perfect creation. With me, he stops pretending. And I already know what loving him will cost.
A world of fantasy, dark romance and everything in between.
The plan was seven exes. Neat. Categorized. Color-coded. Caroline Winter ended up with nine. Ten if you count the drummer in Zurich whose name she never learned.
She’s a psychologist. She knows exactly why she makes bad decisions. She makes them anyway.
Seven Shades of Ex is the story of a woman who stopped calling her exes mistakes and started calling them research.

Maison Carazen is a one-editor independent press founded by author Cara G. Warden in Geneva in 2024. We publish a deliberately small list — fiction we believe in completely, stories that demand to be felt. We don't publish widely. We publish well.
Our authors write across dark romance, romantic suspense, mafia fiction, and romantasy. They share one thing: they write as if it matters.

THIS YEAR, LOVE IS THE DEADLIEST MAGIC OF ALL.
Every year, thirteen black-sealed invitations slip through Geneva’s shadows, summoning strangers, lovers, and liars to the legendary Villa Diodati. The rules? Thirteen guests. Thirteen stories. Every tale must be true or the Villa takes a piece of your soul as payment.
But this isn’t some bougie masquerade with overpriced wine and moody lighting. The masked host is none other than George Byron himself. Yes, that Byron: poet, scandal-magnet, and, thanks to a two-hundred-year-old curse, the Villa’s immortal master of ceremonies. For centuries, he’s seduced and discarded, desired without memory, lusted without love. Just the way the curse likes it.
Until Mira Hartley stumbles into the garden—tipsy, reckless, and absolutely unimpressed by dead poets with god complexes. She doesn’t flinch. She doesn’t swoon. She laughs in Byron’s face. And when he kisses her, it’s not temptation—it’s a warning. Because for the first time in centuries, Byron feels something he shouldn’t: hope.