Esme Rome

The Rose Kiss Esme Rome

A beastly love. A destined doom. When her world turns on her, can she deny the tangles of fate?




Lana Moreau, beautiful daughter of a bankrupt nobleman, is desperate for a suitor with a brain. But things don't go as planned when her father takes her to the local prophet, looking for insight into her many failed courtships. When the seer names her as the Belmorta, a woman doomed to love a beast and bring famine and destruction, Lana runs to escape the village's wrath.

Fleeing through the forest in the dead of night, Lana finds salvation in a magical castle. But choosing to stay may mean giving her heart to the beastly owner, and fulfilling an evil curse...?

Can Lana survive her dark fortune and claim her happily-ever-after?

The Rose Kiss is the mesmerizing first novel in the Fairy Tale Love Stories YA fantasy series. If you like plucky heroines, enchanted romance, and riveting retellings, then you'll adore Esme Rome's captivating story.