Curse of Beauty’s Crime—Dark Beauty & the Beast Retelling Germany’s Black Forest has always whispered of monsters—but Alaric Reinhard is no myth. Cursed into the form of a Wolpertinger, hunted and exiled for the crimes of his past, Alaric wanders his wooded estate in rage and ruin. No one dares enter his territory—until she does. To save her brother, a young fairy woman bargains with the Beast and takes his place as prisoner. Now locked beneath his home, she becomes the one thing Alaric never expected again in his wretched a witness. To his fury. To his guilt. To the man still buried beneath the monster. But curses do not break easily, and every kindness she offers risks awakening the very darkness she should fear. Love may be her only weapon—or the crime that damns them both.