Golden Bond (Pleasure Palace #1)

2025 | LGBTQ+ | Romance | Science Fiction/Fantasy

I came to the sacred island to pay my family's debt. I never expected to lose my heart.

My name is Callis, and I'm an offering.

Sent to Eletheria—the legendary pleasure palace where gods once walked among mortals—I have one purpose: submit to the bonding ritual, serve my time, and return home with my family's honor restored.

But the man who chooses me changes everything.

Auren is silver-haired, devastatingly beautiful, and dangerously powerful. As a Thorn of the sacred order, he needs to complete a successful bond to advance in rank. I should be just another transaction to him—a means to an end.

Instead, he awakens something in me I never knew existed.

Under his skilled touch, I discover pleasure that burns hotter than temple incense. The bond between us grows deeper than any ritual, more consuming than prayer itself. But Auren carries the scars of three failed bonds, and I have a ship waiting to take me home.

As our connection intensifies, I'm forced to choose: honor my duty and leave, or risk everything for a love that could either complete us both—or destroy us.

Some debts can only be paid with the heart.

Golden Bond is the first novel in Pleasure Palace series and includes forced proximity, strangers to lovers, low fantasy, and a guaranteed happy ending. This book is written for adults.

Tavian Cross (Author)