I’ve always known my father was a gambling man, but I never thought I’d be the final chip he’d push across the table.
One night. One high-stakes poker game with the most dangerous creature in New Orleans. One desperate father with nothing left to lose but me.
Now I’m being dragged deep into the bayou to a mansion hidden behind curtains of Spanish moss and secrets. My captor is nothing like any man I’ve ever known—because he’s not a man at all. He’s something impossible, something my rational mind struggles to comprehend.
And he’s cursed.
Something twisted him into a beast that prowls his bayou fortress with barely contained fury. When I try to escape this nightmare, his threat is simple: run, and my father pays with his life.
But as days blend into nights in this decaying paradise, I discover powers stirring beneath my skin—ancient magic that responds to his darkness. The beast may own my freedom, but he’s unleashed something inside me that I can’t control. Something that frightens me.
Beast of Blood and Roses is a dark, steamy enemies-to-lovers paranormal romance featuring a cursed vampire trapped in monstrous form and a captive with dormant powers she never knew existed.
Sometimes true love requires more than a kiss… it demands blood.
This sizzling Beauty and the Beast retelling delivers white-hot tension, forbidden desire, and a fated mates connection that neither can deny. With dangerous supernatural threats lurking in the bayou and a curse that can only be broken by true love, this thrilling tale of captivity and passion will leave you breathless until the very last page!
Tropes:
Enemies to Lovers
Forbidden Romance
Fated Mates
Touch Her and Die
Morally Grey Hero