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.
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.
