The Warden's Hunger

She was sent to guard a monster. She found herself keeping a secret instead.
Senior Warden Magda Prior has spent twelve years learning to read danger before it reads her — and nothing in her file prepared her for Celeste Dawes. Locked three sublevels beneath Millbank Correctional, behind suppression sigils and reinforced steel, Celeste isnt just Magdas most volatile prisoner. Shes an Oracle convicted of three deaths Magda no longer believes she committed.
Every rule Magda has ever followed says: dont look twice. Dont listen when the file feels wrong. Dont fall for the woman in the cell at the end of the corridor.
She breaks every one of them.
As Magda digs into the conspiracy that put Celeste behind bars — one reaching all the way to the Council itself — the walls of Millbank start closing in from both sides. A deputy warden with something to hide. A councillor who signed away an innocent womans freedom. And a hunger neither of them can keep locked away much longer.
The cage was built of duty. The lock turns from the inside.
A slow-burn, gothic sapphic romance for readers who crave forbidden desire, morally grey power dynamics, and a heroine willing to burn the system down for the woman she loves.