The Beast Beneath The Thorns

🌲 Story Pitch: THE BEAST BENEATH THE THORNS

Tagline: The forest doesn’t simply hide its monsters. It beckons you to meet them.

🖤 Short Summary:
At the edge of Eldergrove, the world changes.
Here, the forest grows ancient and cruel, whispering secrets that tangle with the wind and twist through thorny underbrush. Nothing sings. Nothing stirs. The hush isn’t peace — it’s anticipation.

Maren stands on the brink, clutching her satchel so tightly her fingers ache. She is no child to quake at bedtime tales, yet the weight of this silence presses on her lungs, makes her heart thud loud enough for things in the dark to hear. Each step she takes is a trespass — a daring venture into a world that was never meant for human feet. The brambles claw at her cloak, snag her sleeves, trying to pull her back.

But she must go on.
Because tonight, beyond the tangled thorn-walls, something waits for her — something more dangerous, more ancient, and perhaps more truthful than any story ever told.

The forest knows she is coming.
And so does the beast.

🕯 Why authors will love to finish this novel:

🌿 A deliciously dark, atmospheric opening perfect for weaving a gothic fairy tale or haunting dark fantasy.

✨ Invites deep character work — Maren’s bravery and fear, her hidden reasons for stepping into the woods, and the secrets the beast may reveal about both her world and herself.

🌙 Ideal for fans of Uprooted, The Wolf and the Woodsman, or The Bear and the Nightingale — stories where folklore breathes, forests hunger, and nothing is quite what it seems.

📚 Starter package includes:

✔️ A lush, tension-filled first chapter that plunges readers into the eerie hush of Eldergrove’s threshold.

✔️ Character seeds, thematic ideas (the cost of entering forbidden places, who is truly monstrous, and the pull of dark bargains), plus vivid natural imagery.

✔️ Entirely yours to grow into a spellbinding fantasy or dark romantic tale under your own name.

💷 Price: £49.99