Little Red Blood Meridian (Paperback)

Manon Van Daal

ISBN 13: 9798275237542

Published by Independently Published, 2025

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Paperback. She was cast out for wearing red.The wilderness was supposed to kill her.Instead, something in the forest claimed her.Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1631.Rosamund Harlow is driven from her Puritan settlement for the sin of defiance-banished into the winter wilderness with nothing but a basket of bread, a red shawl, and the knowledge that the god she was raised to fear will not save her.Her only hope is her grandmother.A rumored healer.A whispered witch.The one woman who ever made Rosamund feel seen.But when Rosamund reaches the forest cottage, the hearth is cold, the door stands open, and the woods are already watching.A woodsman from the settlement begins following her path through the snow-a man whose faith is as sharp as a blade, and whose interest settles on Rosamund like a claim.When he decides she belongs to him, the forest does not remain silent.Something ancient moves in the dark.Something territorial.Something that does not tolerate rivals.This is not a story about taming the beast.It is a story about what happens when the beast chooses you. Readers will find: Feral monster romancePossessive wolf-like creatureColonial New England folk horrorWitchcraft and forest magicTouch-her-and-die protectorViolent gothic fairy taleDark fantasy heatErotic folklore retelling LITTLE RED BLOOD MERIDIAN is a brutal adult retelling of Little Red Riding Hood blending American folklore, gothic horror, and dark fantasy romance for readers who love dangerous creatures, haunted forests, and women who step off the path they were warned never to leave. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Little Red Blood Meridian (Paperback)
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798275237542
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The godly men warned her about the wolf. They never warned her about the woodsman.

New Canaan, Massachusetts, 1631.

Nineteen-year-old Rosamund Harlow has always been too much for her Puritan settlement. Too dark. Too beautiful. Too unwilling to hide beneath the colorless obedience expected of a godly woman.

Her red shawl is the final offense.

When the minister turns an entire sermon against her, Rosamund’s father sends her into the forest to wait out the village’s suspicion with the grandmother everyone whispers is a witch.

But the cottage is empty.

Her grandmother has vanished. The hearth is cold. And something enormous is watching Rosamund from among the trees.

The black wolf should terrify her. Instead, he listens when she speaks. He retreats when she refuses him. And when he takes the form of a man, Rosamund discovers a creature more tender—and more fiercely devoted—than anyone she has known in the Christian world.

The woodsman is another matter.

Ezra Crane knows what lives in the forest. He knows the wolf has chosen Rosamund. And beneath his scripture, his traps, and his claims of righteous protection lies a hunger far more monstrous than anything stalking the wilderness.

When Ezra decides to cleanse Rosamund of the wolf’s influence, he carries her into a cabin filled with the remains of women who were never saved.

But the wolf knows where his mate has been taken.

And this time, the woodsman will not survive the tale.

Little Red Blood Meridian is an explicit dark historical retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, featuring a Puritan outcast heroine, a protective black wolf shifter, primal mating, knotting, a murderous woodsman, bloody revenge, and a feral HEA.