A Beauty and the Beast role-swapping retelling where the beauty may be the monster.
Saxa was created to protect those who travel the seas. Grief changed that.
After loss turns her rage toward the Raiders who haunt the northern waters, Saxa’s sisters decide she has gone too far. They strip away her powers, her immortality, and nearly everything that once made her a goddess.
She has twelve weeks to change. Or die.
Brandr Tryggve never intended to become part of a game between immortals. After a violent storm destroys his ship, he finds himself stranded on a mysterious island where gods walk among mortals, monsters hide behind familiar faces, and every bargain comes with a price.
When Brandr trades his freedom for his brother’s life, he is drawn into Saxa’s world. Neither understands quite what the other is. And nothing on the island is as it seems.
Beauty. Beast. Choose Carefully.
Storm & Solace turns the familiar Beauty and the Beast story sideways.
Set among storm-lashed islands and inspired by Norse mythology, the story follows two people forced into circumstances neither chose. Around them are gods with their own agendas, creatures drawn from old stories, dangerous seas, hidden places, and a world much larger than either realizes.
At its heart, though, Storm & Solace is about what happens after grief becomes anger.
And whether someone can find their way back before there is nothing left to save.
You May Enjoy Storm & Solace If You Like…
- Beauty and the Beast retellings with a twist
- Norse gods, goddesses, and mythology
- Morally complicated heroines
- Slow-building romance
- Shipwrecks, storms, and dangerous islands
- Monsters that are not always what they appear
- Hidden identities and secrets
- Found family
- Redemption stories
- Fantasy worlds where choices have consequences
Welcome to Breidhablik
Far from familiar shores lies an island that was never meant to welcome outsiders.
Breidhablik is home to sailors, traders, gods, former slaves, creatures of legend, and people who have crossed oceans searching for somewhere they might live free.
Beyond its peaceful harbor lie forests, black stone ridges, hidden paths, dangerous waters, and places locals know better than to visit.
Brandr arrives knowing none of this. Perhaps that is for the best.
Meet Saxa
Goddess. Protector. Monster.
Depending on whom you ask, all three may be true.
Saxa has spent centuries guarding those who travel the sea, but grief has pushed her toward vengeance. When her sisters finally intervene, she is forced to experience mortality for the first time.
Pain. Weakness. Dependence.
And the unsettling realization that the world may continue without her. Her greatest battle may not be against the creatures threatening her island. It may be against herself.
Meet Brandr
Farmer. Brother. Survivor.
Brandr wants a simple life far removed from powerful men and their ambitions. Instead, the sea delivers him somewhere impossible.
Stranded far from his family and bound by a bargain he cannot undo, Brandr must learn the rules of an island where mythology is not mythology at all.
Fortunately, Brandr has always been good at adapting.
Unfortunately, the gods have noticed him.
The World Beyond the Story
Storm & Solace is the first doorway into The Fractured Kingdom, an interconnected fantasy world inspired by fairy tales, folklore, and Norse mythology.
The story stands on its own, but its islands, histories, characters, and consequences extend beyond a single book.
Some threads end here.
Others are only beginning.
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