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Standalone Gothic Dark Fantasy (not a romance).
Yelena is a laundress and sex worker, evicted from her rot-plagued village after false rumours of dark sorcery, and Yelen is a cursed tyrant, doomed to remain a Beast until the end of his days. When the restless dead who ride the wind bring them together, things escalate quickly… but being stuck in a castle with a lonely, amorous Beast isn’t all fun and games. While staying in the enchanted castle, Yelena discovers the sinister truth behind Yelen’s unbroken curse, and the origins of the rot… but can she cure it, and at what cost?

Tropes
Beauty & the Beast, Age Gap (30sF, 250+M) Competent Protag in her 30s, rot plague, dead gods, I Love You But I’m Not In Love With You, Friends with Benefits, Non-Monogamous Relationship Structures, Strong Women Aren’t Just Fighters, Monster Fucking, Dying Community, Rural Life vs Industrialisation, City vs Country, Landlords vs Tenants, Stuck in a Time Loop, Some Curses Can’t Be Broken, Finding Your True Love in the Underworld, Letting the Wrong One In [Possession Horror elements].

Tags
Monster Spice, Bi M/F, F/F, Aromantic/Allosexual, fat characters, not a romance

Content Warnings

death (loss, grief, murder, on-page suicide/self-sacrifice, and the afterlife), community (its construction, reconstruction, and destruction), loss of family, including found family/chosen family, possession, loss of agency and autonomy, and mental health issues such as suicide ideation, depersonalisation, derealisation, and depression. There is also civil unrest, lynching of landlords, and the appearance of soldiers and militia.