Wolfthorn Bride

At twenty, Luna was used by her biological father as a bargaining chip for his debts, thrown into a Gothic manor entwined with black thorns. Its master—Fenris, who wears a wolf-head mask—is the bloodthirsty monster of local village folklore. Yet Luna discovers he never harms her; instead, he merely brings hot soup in the dead of night and whispers outside her door, "I will frighten you." Is he a man or a beast? What exactly did he endure in that betrayal a century ago? Why can Luna's kiss shatter his mask and reveal a human face beneath? When the entire village raises torches and cries "Burn the witch," an even more ancient voice awakens from within the priest: "Wolfthorn, long time no see." That voice shares the exact same origin as the curse inside Fenris. Amidst the flames and lies, can Luna awaken the final spark of light deep within his heart?