Claiming Red: A Dark Red Riding Hood Monster Romance Retelling (Once Upon A Monster Book 1)

They called me Red for the cloak I wore, but soon they would call me Red for the blood I spilled. After a terrifying vision of my own drowning at the hands of my village elders, I fled into the forbidden forest—a place that devours men and returns them in pieces. I expected death, but instead, I found him.

Held captive in my grandmother’s cottage by a man as scarred and wild as the woods themselves, I am trapped in a dangerous game of forced proximity. He claims he is keeping me safe from the horrors that hunt by scent, but his amber eyes track me with a hunger that feels far more primal than protection. When I discover he is a monster—a hulking wolf of nightmare proportions—the truth shatters everything I thought I knew about the ancient, blood-soaked war between my kind and his.

This dark romance is an enemies-to-lovers masterclass, blending folklore with visceral, paranormal intensity. As an older, hungrier threat stalks the woods and my village closes in, I am forced to choose between fleeing or fighting alongside the beast. In this world of magic and shadows, I have finally stopped running. I have chosen blood.