Flowers and Darkness

A retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Belle sets out to find her missing father. He means the world to her after loosing her mother and sister ten years ago. She finds her him deep in the woods. Lost and cold they come across a castle where a series of events lead to her father's freedom and homecoming but her imprisonment. But who is the beast that occupies the castle? Why does he seem so human, so kind, and so familiar? And what is the darkness that is descending on the kingdom? Belle sets out to find her father but instead finds a beast, adventure, a plot that could lead to the fall of the kingdom, and love?