Bound to the Beasts: Royalverse, Book 2

Briar Rose has always known her worth—and it's exactly the price her family put on her head when they sold her into an arranged marriage with Cillian Blackwood, the most feared billionaire in the country.

She arrives at Blackwood Manor expecting one monster. She gets three.

Cillian is cold and commanding, a man who collects beautiful things and calls it love. Dane is all brute force and barely contained fury behind a maze of brutal scars. And Rhys—sharp-tongued, calculating Rhys—seems to take personal pleasure in dismantling every defense she builds. Three alphas. One gothic estate that breathes like something living. And a ballerina who has spent her entire career being told to be graceful, quiet, and obedient.

Briar refuses all three.

This modern Beauty and the Beast retelling is steeped in dark, atmospheric tension that crawls under your skin and stays there. What begins as captivity slowly curdles into something more complicated—something Briar isn't prepared to name—as she discovers the monsters she's been caged with are hiding secrets far more dangerous than their tempers. The horrors lurking in Blackwood Manor aren't just the men who rule it, and survival may require Briar to decide whether her beasts are the threat she needs to escape or the protection she desperately needs.

When the lines between enemy and guardian dissolve entirely, the real question isn't whether she can trust them—it's whether she can afford not to.