Roses : A Retelling of "Beauty & the Beast"

[A VERY Slow Burn, Coming-Of-Age, Reimagined Fairy Tale Romance]
A Beast falls in love with a Beauty, but it's much more complicated than that. It's a tale as old as time, but it's definitely not your mother's "Beauty &the Beast".

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Aiden Whitebell is many things - son of a governor, clever, a smooth talker - but first and foremost, he is hated by everyone at his prestigious boarding school. His sudden disappearance raises flags, but his parents insist that their son will come home when he is ready. They don't know that Aiden can't, watching the news unfold behind the walls of the Raychester Citadel Sanitarium on the other side of the ocean, his cursed stay indefinite. He closes himself off while his kidnappers watch, bemused.

Lillian Prescott is many things - daughter of a merchant, smart, yearning for more - but is not sick despite what her family physician says. Living in the war-worn city of Antham presents its own issues, but falling ill with a potentially deadly and contagious disease is not one of them for her. Regardless, her family sends her to the Raychester Citadel Sanitarium to be treated for two months. She has two months of solitude, emptiness, and time to spare.

A chance meeting in the library is where this story truly starts.

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This will be purely an experiment in writing for as long as I live. I failed tremendously and I love it.

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