Retelling "Beauty and the Beasts" with illustrations in the style of dark romanticism and gothic elements. Eris lives in a city that is slowly dying. People around them believe in stories about a mysterious monster that once burned everything with magic and can destroy their city again. And about the two kings who saved everyone. Therefore, magic is considered something terrible. Eris decides to flee the hated city and almost immediately ends up in the lair of a mysterious man in a cloak. He lives as a hermit and, as it turns out, owns magic. By accident, Eris kills the only creature close to the monster... Then she makes a deal with the monster, promising to learn magic and restore the dying lands. Gradually they get closer... And the day will come when she will have to choose: take the side of the militant townspeople or the one whose pain and rage can destroy them all. Who is this book for? For lovers of romantic fantasy with a twisted plot. Published for the first time.