Consumed : A Dark Fairytale Monster Romance

by Rhea Vern

Alice took a freelance commission in a village that doesn't appear on most maps. The cottage was cheap. The brief was simple. The woods were not.

Past the birches with the luminous bark, past the silence that presses like a hand on the chest, there is a garden. It grows in a circle. Each flower marks an hour. And standing at the centre of it, seven feet of white fur, black claws, and patient, unblinking attention, is something that has been counting time alone for longer than she wants to ask.

He does not chase. He does not grab. He waits, and watches, and asks permission before he touches her face with hands that could break the door frame.

The problem is the garden. Every hour she spends near him, a flower closes. Every touch costs time neither of them can get back. And Alice, who has built a life around precision and solitude, is discovering that the most dangerous thing in these woods is not the creature. It is how much she wants to stay.

Consumed is a standalone dark fairytale monster romance with an inhuman hero, a heroine who chose him with her eyes open, and a clock that does not care about good intentions. HEA guaranteed.

Tropes
🐇 Inhuman hero
🐇 He falls first
🐇 Touch has consequences
🐇 Forced proximity
🐇 Only she can see the real him
🐇 Beauty and the Beast retelling
🐇 Size difference
🐇 Slow burn with high payoff
🐇 Protective hero
🐇 Touch starved heroine
🐇 Cottage in the woods


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Alice took a freelance commission in a village that doesn't appear on most maps. The cottage was cheap. The brief was simple. The woods were not.

Past the birches with the luminous bark, past the silence that presses like a hand on the chest, there is a garden. It grows in a circle. Each flower marks an hour. And standing at the centre of it, seven feet of white fur, black claws, and patient, unblinking attention, is something that has been counting time alone for longer than she wants to ask.

He does not chase. He does not grab. He waits, and watches, and asks permission before he touches her face with hands that could break the door frame.

The problem is the garden. Every hour she spends near him, a flower closes. Every touch costs time neither of them can get back. And Alice, who has built a life around precision and solitude, is discovering that the most dangerous thing in these woods is not the creature. It is how much she wants to stay.

Consumed is a standalone dark fairytale monster romance with an inhuman hero, a heroine who chose him with her eyes open, and a clock that does not care about good intentions. HEA guaranteed.

Tropes
🐇 Inhuman hero
🐇 He falls first
🐇 Touch has consequences
🐇 Forced proximity
🐇 Only she can see the real him
🐇 Beauty and the Beast retelling
🐇 Size difference
🐇 Slow burn with high payoff

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 10, 2026

Reviews

[Alicia Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Take a trip with this twist on Alice In Wonderland. All the emotions are right here in one book, Consumed. The name is definitely fitting because as soon as you open the book you are consumed! Happy reading!