Goth and the Beast
Goth and the Beast
Paranormal Romance
“What Abbi can't see might be the only reason he lets her get close.”
She's covered in ink, piercings, and a wardrobe built to draw people's attention. He's covered in scars he'd give anything to hide. Neither expected the other to be exactly what they needed. What starts as a feud over a property line, a disturbed peace, and a murdered stuffed animal soon becomes the ground something unexpected grows from. Abigail Belmont-Vaughn isn't looking for pity, or a fairy tale to save her. She's rebuilding a life that fell apart the day she lost her sight, struggling to hold on to the woman who once climbed mountains, hitchhiked across Europe, and rode motorcycles too fast. The last thing she needs is a reclusive, brooding, ill-tempered neighbor who growls before he speaks. Thomas Dunn has spent centuries paying for the man he used to be: a secret written across every inch of him, cursed to wear his sins on his skin. He's made sure the world never gets close enough to see him. He and everyone trapped in the curse alongside him are waiting on one thing: someone's unconditional love, freely given, to break the spell. He stopped believing it would ever come, and settled for hiding in plain sight at the end of a cul-de-sac. What Abbi can't see might be the only reason he lets her get close. She can only feel the warmth of his hands, hear the honesty in his words, and sense, somehow, that she's the first person he's ever truly opened to. For Thomas, that's the terrifying part. She's the first person who didn't recoil, because she never had the chance to. But Abbi's heart already belongs to someone else: a voice from a two-hundred-year-old journal, a dead man who understood her sorrow and pain more deeply than anyone she's ever known. When her blindness turned her world to chaos, his voice was the one thing that brought her peace. By every reasonable measure, they shouldn't work. She's too much. He's not enough, or so he's convinced himself. But somewhere between the crude jokes, the drinking binges, and the fears they finally stop running from, he realizes she's the only person who's ever truly seen him, not in spite of what she can't see, but because of it. A reimagining of the classic tale for readers who know a happily-ever-after has to be earned, not given.