About this Event
Join us Friday, July 24 at Beguiled Books for an evening with Chelsey Ann Tompkins, who will be joined in conversation with Romy of Paperback Pleasures Podcast.
As part of this event, you'll have a chance to meet Chelsey, get your book(s) signed, and test your fairytale knowledge as part of themed trivia.
About the book:
Reshina, Ravenfae Goddess, has relinquished her title of Cursebringer but has kept a select few of her powers. After using them to punish a man stealing from her people, she stumbles into the winter lands of Heartstone Castle. When a thorn from a frosted rosebush spills her blood onto the snow, an old curse she once delivered there awakens, dragging her into the Underrealm and binding her to its king.
Arthur, long since obsessed with Reshina after devouring the book she wrote years ago, roams the surface as a Beast and rules below as a haunted man. He offers her the only way to break the curse—drive a dagger through his heart. Refusing to take his life, she is drawn deeper into his grasp with every attempt to escape. The Beast marks her above the realm, and the man below soothes her wounds, taking her into his care. Caught between hunger and tenderness, Reshina must decide whether to break the curse… or surrender to the dangerous intimacy of the king who knows her far too well.
Beast & Thorn is a tender gothic retelling of Beauty and the Beast, infused with shades of Hades and Persephone.
Tropes:
🥀 Cursed Goddess
✨Mindless Beast to Haunted King
🥀 Reverse Age-Gap
✨Obsessive MMC
🥀 Morally Grey FMC
✨Spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️
About the author:
Chelsey Ann Tompkins was born a storyteller, specializing in tales of love and soulful romance. Her adolescence was spent reading countless historical romance novels, along with the classics by Jane Austen. However, Jane Eyre will always remain her favorite. When she is not dreaming up heartbreaking romance stories, you can find her brewing yet another vanilla latte, taking her kids to the park, quilting, or reading while indulging in the blissful silence a bubble bath provides. She resides near Seattle with her husband and two children.
About the host:
Romy C Ackerberg is one half of Paperback Pleasures, a small business and podcast dedicated to destigmatizing romance literature and sexual expression of all kinds. Romy reads everything from dark romance and kink literature to swoonworthy YA stories and Romantasy. She has a special love for light fantasy and queer romance, and an unnecessary obsession with the rise and fall of Fabio. When she's not nose-deep in a romance novel, she's a professional journalist here in Seattle.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
109 1st Ave S, 109 1st Avenue South, Seattle, United States
USD 19.73
