THE BEAST WHO LOVED ME
They sent her to study the monster. She never expected to fall in love with his prison.
Dr. Elara Vance doesn't believe in curses. She believes in data, evidence, and cold hard facts. When she's dispatched to a remote mountain to investigate strange geological anomalies, she expects rocks and fossils—not a beast of bone and earth who speaks in the language of ancient glaciers.
Kael has been trapped for a thousand years. Cursed, forgotten, and ravenous for any connection beyond the terror his very presence inspires. He expects Elara to scream. To run. To beg.
She brings him a barometer and asks about his weather patterns.
What begins as a battle of wills becomes something neither