My Dark Beast (Wicked Retellings #1) by Olivia Wildenstein

Book #1, a Standalone, in the Wicked Retellings Series

Tropes: A Dark Paranormal Sleeping Beauty Retelling, Found Family, Touch Her & Die

SLEEPING BEAUTY x HADES & PERSEPHONE.

Tarian Hadez—thirty-three, real estate mogul, mob lord, most eligible bachelor in New England, god. The god-part is an exaggeration. If true deities existed, then the world would be a magical place, and it's really not. At least, my world isn't.

Calanthe Bloom. That's me. Twenty-four, college graduate drowning in debt, designer shoes and true crime podcast addict, florist by default, single by design. Although not living my best life, l'm enthusiastically pursuing it. Especially, in my dreams, which, since a recent flower-delivery snafu, all feature none other than lethally private Tarian.

Oh, the things he does to me when I sleep.

Wickedly surreal.

Except... are they?