Really badly written! The author is very lazy and uncaring about her writing and chosen profession publishing books with so many basic mistakes littering every page. Like not caring to learn the difference between "there, they're and their".
But even worse are the very basic mistakes she surely should have easily spotted and fixed, but hasn't, including the numerous times it says 'he" when it should say "she", and "her" when it should say "she",etc. Small words missing, extra words, including names.
Here's a single sentence copied and pasted direct from the opening scene, literally the first pages, and shows how bad the writing is, and shows that the author surely did not even bother to do a single read through of this before hitting publish,
"Not that she minded, it was a literally flattering to have this kind of attention everywhere she went." I don't think I need to list the numerous problems in that one sentence. Which also isn't even a sentence because there's no context as to what it's referring to, so it makes zero sense.
On the very first page the author repeats twice that the heroine's flirting got her brother into trouble, and repeats twice that in his alcohol riddled state he smashed a bottle over the head of a guy coming onto her. The author repeats things often like this. Boring.
As for the story, I did like the premise idea, the heroine's brother was sent to prison and another inmate blackmails her into agreeing to weekly visits to him for sex or he'll hurt/kill her brother. I love dark romance, and I did like parts of this but mostly it is awful.
Their first encounter the author uses words like "it feels like he tears her", it's really unpleasant reading. Then the author actually writes that this heroine masterbates while thinking of him just a week after he brutally forced her, hurting/tearing her. Rubbish.
So the H was brutal and unlikable and violent to the heroine in most of their sexual encounters, only for the author to then suddenly at the end write him in love with her, eye roll. The heroine is just unlikable and too stupid to live type throughout the entire book.
She's so selfish she gets her brother sent to prison then continues to get him almost beaten because she's so stupid and selfish she keeps being a bitch and mouthing off to the prison guards and to the H, who she knows can hurt her brother and who do hurt him because of her.
The author's writing is too drama queen in style, it's so ridiculously over the top with how viciously she writes her male leads attacking, beating, kicking and strangling her heroines. But the heroines are instantly able to get up and run around after being violently beaten. It's just not believeable.
I do like a good prisoner based book, I read any I can find, even prison planet scifi. My favourites of those as recommendations are Hold by Claire Kent and Guardian Prison Planet by Emmy Chandler.
With real-life based prison stories there obviously aren't many options for male prisoners accessing women, a sister/ wife/ex wife visiting another inmate, or a female working at the prison. The author herself has a second prison based book in which the heroine is the lawyer of the inmate, think it was titled Aquitted.
But outside of that understandable similar plot premise, the heroine here is identical Jamie Begley's heroine in her Predators Riot, who did exactly the same thing to her brother as the heroine here, got her brother landed in prison from attacking a guy she was flirting with. It was published a year before this book.
Because of both the prison and billionaire parts combined in this book, this also reminded me of books by Annika Martin books, particularly her book Prisoner, again published a year before this, and combined with her Billionaire stories. Mentioning those in case readers want similar books.
The prison based part of this story only lasts for the first less than 20% of the book and the whopping remaining 80% was just a boring billionaire troupe, that is actually just an exact copy and paste from several of the authors other books.
The handful or so books I've read to the end by the author for reference are Skyes Heart, Fallen, Jake's story, forgot the title of his books, the Blacks Brothers series and this book Caged. But tje other handful I trued, like I said, are just tedious and lazy copies of those. Which I didn't finish.
I really do mean they are practucally identical, all had the same settings, situations, characters behave, talk and even described as looking the same. So if you've read one of El Beth's books then you've read them all.
It's really so bad how identical the author's stories are that I thought it was some kind of weird joke the author had with herself, to see how badly she could write and how badly she could just repeat the same stories and still get readers buying.
So I haven't read anything else by her for years. Amazon deleted my reviews so leaving them here, byt first read this in 2018. 3 stars is probably generous given the issues here but I think it's only fair to give that because some of it was enjoyable, if you can ignore the poor writing and OTT violence of the H toward the h.
The books are very expensive at £5 per ebook, compared to similar by other authors. I would not recommend them. Even if they were free on KU I'm not interested because apart from the first handful books I listed above, the free sample chapters I tried for some of other books were just the author copying and pasting the same story and characters over and over.