She-Wolf: A Sapphic Beowulf Retelling by E.K. O'Connor

You know the poem. You know the hero. You don't know the full story. Beowulf lands on a Danish shore in winter, salt spray soaking her armor, and walks into a failing king's hall with fourteen warriors and a name that already echoes across seas. She fights the monster Grendel without a weapon and wins. She dives into a cursed lake and faces something worse. But the battles that cost her the most are not the ones fought with fists. They are the battles of legacy and loneliness, of a woman the world insists on calling a killer when she only ever wanted to protect. When a queen sees past the legend to the woman beneath, something shifts that no monster could dislodge. The epic poem gave you a hero. She-Wolf gives you the truth of her. Find out in She-Wolf, an immersive sapphic retelling of Beowulf featuring a warrior queen and a slow-burn romance between two powerful women.