Beastly Chains: A Fantasy Retelling of Beauty & the Beast with Cursed Bloodline, Forbidden Love and Dark Lords (The Healing Fire Saga) by Hazel Dains

In just one night, everything changes for Eleanor when a terrifying shape-shifter lays waste to the once great Everhall, killing anyone who stands in the way of his target: Eleanor. Dragged back to his castle, she is given a choice: translate the lost work that holds the secret to breaking his curse—and earn her freedom—or refuse, and remain forever within the shadowed halls of Ashenwick, a prisoner to its cursed master. Readers who love dark fantasy romance, morally complex heroes, and Beauty and the Beast retellings will devour this redemptive tale. Eleanor's peaceful life as a translator in the Everhall of Aurvale ends the night a monstrous beast tears through her home, slaughtering everyone in its path to reach her. Dragged to Ashenwick Castle, Eleanor discovers her captor is also a man: Gabriel Durnham, Lord of Nytheria, the last Virellian nobleman in a land now ruled by Lysarrian overlords. Man and beast are one, bound by a family curse that will condemn him to wander the earth as a monstrous vagabond unless the curse is broken—or someone else breaks it for him. Eleanor faces an impossible choice: translate the lost work that holds the secret to Gabriel's curse and earn her freedom, or refuse and remain forever a prisoner within the shadowed halls of Ashenwick, bound to its cursed master. Read more