The Mask and The Bell
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A retelling of The Beauty and The Beast.
When young Rosalind travels to a new village after her own is ravaged by plague and drought, she awakens in a strange castle with a stranger master. She has no memory of arriving, other than a piercing fear and terrible wound on her side. Nonetheless, he saved Rosey's life, and now she feels obliged to repay this act.
In a time of witches and curses, Rosalind will face terrible choices and grotesque monsters. Shes always been told stories of the things that go bump in the night, but now she will have to face the creatures that bump back.
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I abandoned this story three years ago and missed working on it, so here I am crawling back with a broken spacebar on my laptop and a craving for more of The Mask and The Bell. I hope y'all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.
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