title: Hunted: An Erotic Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (An Adult Fairy Tale Novel)
author:  Cerys du Lys 
description: Cerys has charted on numerous best sellers and hot new release lists internationally with multiple books. She lives in the Greater Boston area in a small town in New Hampshire. She spends her days writing, reading, learning, and working. And maybe sometimes she flirts with the mailman. Some of her most favorite activities involve understanding and learning about emotions and relationships. She adores pondering sexuality and sensualness. Most of her writing delves into this in some way, exploring reactions and relationships between different people. While she enjoys writing erotica and erotic romance, her goal is to also keep a certain literary appeal to the writing instead of something purely pornographic. Every story she writes has a delightful plot along with the more devious and delicious scenes we all want to read. She prefers romance settings, with the occasional monster or fairytale. Her secret kinks include reluctance, interesting paranormal creatures, romance(even with monsters), and fun. She loves writing about all of these things, though very strongly acknowledges that fantasies are fiction and nothing more.
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  > _Belle Gunness was a lady fair In Indiana State._
  
  >  _She weighed about three hundred pounds, And that is quite some weight._
  
  >  _That she was stronger than a man Her neighbors all did own; She butchered
  > hogs right easily, And did it all alone._
  
  >  _But hogs were just a sideline She indulged in now and then; Her favorite
  > occupation Was a-butchering of men._
  
  > —ANONYMOUS,
  
  > “THE BALLAD OF BELLE GUNNESS”
  
    
  
  > PROLOGUE BLUEBEARD’S DOOR
  
  Fairyland, as every child knows, is a terrifying place, populated by all
  manner of nightmarish beings: the snaggletoothed witch who lusts for the
  fattened flesh of little children; the bloodthirsty giant ready to roast 