In Her Hands
A Gothic Sapphic Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
by Bianca Mannix

What if the Beast was a woman who consumed those she loved?
What if Belle found her soulmate in the monster's arms?
What if true love was the curse, not the cure?

Some roses, no matter how carefully tended, are destined to bloom beautifully and die young.

Maya Jackson is twenty-eight, broke, and desperate when she accepts a strange job posting: live-in companion to a retired professor in a secluded Victorian manor. Blackwell Manor is no ordinary home, and Miss Evangeline Blackwell is no ordinary employer.

Elegant, enigmatic, and not entirely human, Evangeline offers Maya more than shelter—she offers transformation. Each evening, Evangeline's "treatments" leave Maya euphoric, glowing, and addicted. Their relationship deepens into an obsessive bond that blurs the line between healing and hunger, devotion and destruction.

As silver threads weave through Maya's hair and her body changes in impossible ways, she discovers the truth: she is becoming something else. Something beautiful. Something dangerous. And every woman before her has died in the process.

But Maya has already fallen in love with the monster. And she's willing to fight fate itself to survive.

A dark, erotic reimagining where the enchanted castle is a gothic manor, the curse kills the beloved instead of the beast, and true love isn't enough to break the spell.

Told in alternating perspectives with lush prose and devastating intimacy, In Her Hands is gothic sapphic horror romance for readers who crave queer longing, supernatural transformation, and love stories that destroy as beautifully as they bloom.