He wanted a consort. She wanted more. Neither expected to find everything.

When a golden scroll arrives in Genevieve’s village seeking a bride for the infamous Beast of Aurenthia, she sees her chance to escape a life that’s always been too small for her ambitions. The blacksmith’s daughter with a courtesan mother’s education isn’t interested in wealth or status—she wants someone who won’t bore her. Someone who can match her wit, her hunger, and her refusal to settle.

Lord Leoric has had consorts before. They either couldn’t handle his appetites or bored him within months. The lion chimera who rules from his enchanted castle has stopped hoping for a true partner—until he watches Genevieve laugh in the faces of his hyena guards and solve his puzzles faster than anyone in a century.

She’s not a trembling maiden. He’s not looking for one.

What follows is a battle of wills, a game of seduction, and a passion that threatens to consume them both. Through trials of intellect and courage, through whispered conversations in moonlit libraries, through the slow burn of two people who refuse to surrender—Genevieve and her Beast discover that sometimes the thing you’ve been searching for has been waiting for you all along.

But when a rejected rival spreads lies and leads an angry mob to the castle gates, Genevieve must choose: the safe life she left behind, or the extraordinary future she’s claimed with her own two hands.

Consort to the Beast is a steamy monster romance featuring:

A sharp-tongued heroine who knows what she wantsA cultured beast with a lion’s mane and insatiable appetitesWitty banter and slow-burn tensionExplicit love scenes with size difference and monster romance elementsA talking peacock majordomo (who faints when scandalized)Enthusiastic consent and a guaranteed HEAThis is a standalone novella with explicit sexual content intended for adult readers.