Blood Rose (The Undying Love Collection Book 1)

Beauty and the Beast, but not how you remember it. Annabelle lives under the cloud of a dark curse in her family's centuries-old plantation house. A blood drinker who cannot feed, Annabelle has become a beastly sight. She and her companions are tasked with finding someone to sacrifice themselves and break her curse. After two hundred years, Annabelle has given up and accepted her impending demise.Hawthorne Reed finds himself stranded on a deserted road far from his home in Charleston, South Carolina. His only hope for relief from the stifling heat seems to be a grand old home way off the beaten path. There he meets an unusual but intriguing young woman. Is Hawthorne the one Annabelle has been waiting for? Can he help her in time? Blood Rose is a dark, paranormal retelling of Beauty and the Beast and is set in present-day South Carolina with glimpses back to the 18th century.