Once upon a time, each winter, as snow began to fall, a woman was offered to the Beast of the Highlands, a man condemned to live without warmth and unable to love.
They say he’s been searching for the exception to make him feel emotion again… the chosen one who could finally break his curse.
This winter, I am the offering.
My life shatters overnight when I wake inside a decaying Gothic mansion high in the snowy Scottish Highlands.
The walls whisper. The shadows breathe. And the man who rules them doesn’t just watch me—he haunts me.
Always there. Always unseen.
He hunts. I run. But somehow, I always end up in his arms.
His voice is a promise. His touch, a punishment.
Alistair McLeod is not just my captor. He’s the storm that will consume me.
Cruel. Powerful. Fascinating. Terrifying.
He will stop at nothing to break me. I will stop at nothing to be free.
They say he’s made of ice. Turns out, I’m nothing but fire.
He didn’t just kidnap me—he made me his bride. He may own my body, but he’ll never have my heart.
A dark, twisted Beauty and the Beast retelling, for readers 18+. This fairytale does not contain a prince charming, but only a villain.
This story has supernatural elements, but it’s not a Fantasy.
