Freya Victoria
Author. Narrator. Podcaster.
The Forgotten Ones
A Fantasy Romance Fairytale Retelling Series
About Book 1
Blurb
“Hi, I’m Mason, and though I have no doubts everyone within earshot heard that spectacular display my girlfriend just put on, I’d really rather we pretend you didn’t just hear that.”
“I’m Callie, and I’m not sure what display you’re talking about. I didn’t see a display.”
Callie wasn’t looking for anyone. She was just trying to survive a sleigh ride at the world’s most awkward moment. Instead she got Mason, a stranger with a mysterious warning she can’t shake.
“It’s important to remember, looks can be deceiving.”
Then there’s the locked chest in her parents’ attic. Her mom tells her not to worry about it, which is basically a dare. Inside: dozens of old leather journals. Callie takes the oldest one back to her room and starts reading.
Big mistake. Or possibly the best decision she’s ever made.
The dreams start that same night, and they don’t feel like dreams. The snow is cold. The wolf is real enough to make her heart pound. The ropes leave marks she can’t explain the next morning.
Callie’s life was supposed to be predictable. College, a job, the occasional bad date. Instead she’s falling for two different men, split between two worlds, never sure which one she’ll wake up in.
Then the beast is shot in front of her, and she’s stuck. Trapped, with no way back and no idea if he’s alive. No explanation for why Mason went quiet too.
When she finally makes it back, war has already started without her. Then Callie is captured.
She knows the fairy tale. What she doesn’t know is why the villains from two different stories are suddenly working together.
Now she has to save herself, the beast, and a kingdom that’s starting to feel like home.
This Beauty and the Beast retelling is a slow burn romance. He falls first, and she is the chosen one. It is book one in a series of interconnected fairy tale retellings.
This book contains dark and mature content, including situations involving violence and abuse. A full content warning list is available below:
Trigger Warnings
Alcohol
There is alcohol consumption in the book, no one is an alcoholic.
Assault, Blood, Death, Decapitation, Gore, Murder, Violence, War
During the battle there is a lot of war related scenes in which there is blood, violence, decapitation, lots of arrows being shot, sword fights and subsequent carnage.
Assault, Gore, Hospitalization, Hostages, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture
Callie is kidnapped and held captive, she is beaten, and later spends time with healers to help her.
Anxiety
The beast is shot and she’s ripped back to her world, and the other MMC (Male Main Character) ghosts her leaving her anxious and scared.
Cheating
The MMC’s girlfriend admits to cheating near the beginning of the book, she rubs it in his face on page.
Sexually Explicit Scenes & Language
The Forgotten Beast is a fantasy romance book. It is a slow burn and nothing sexually explicit happens until the end. Profanity is nothing more than you’d hear out in public.
About Book 1.5
Blurb
“Hi, my name is Jimmy. What’s yours?”
“I’m Wendy.”
He squints his eyes as he looks at me. “You don’t look gross.”
“What? Who told you I was gross?” I drop my dolly to the ground and hold my fists on my hips.
“Everyone knows girls are gross.” He rolls his eyes before continuing. “But I think we’re going to be the best of friends.”
The story of Peter Pan? Yeah… it didn’t go quite the way you’ve heard. Hook’s name is James. James Barrie. He met Wendy Darling when they were eight years old.
Peter is the bad boy who gets what he wants, even if he has to blackmail, or worse, to get his way. But what happens when he pushes Wendy too far?
This book takes place during the events of The Forgotten Beast. This is the villain’s story, and it’s part of a series of interconnected fairy tale retellings.
This childhood friends-to-lovers fairytale reimagining is not a dark romance, but it does contain darker themes. This book contains dark and mature content, including situations involving abuse and violence. A full content warning list is available below:
Trigger Warnings
Abusive Relationships
Hook grows up in an abusive household (father is a drunk and abuses both his mother and him, eventually killing her)
Peter is an asshole and some of his actions are considered abusive or manipulative
Alcohol
Multiple characters drink, both recreationally and destructively
Assault
Hook’s mother is beaten and killed. Hook is also abused as a child. Peter is rough many times with his sexual partners.
Bullying
Peter is a narcissistic sadist. He will do whatever he needs to to get what he wants.
Cheating
Wendy does not want to be Peter’s “girlfriend” he does have her in a semi-committed fuck-buddy situation. While she is away from the castle, he has sex with another woman.
Child Abuse
Hook’s father is abusive. He is later imprisoned for killing Hook’s mother.
Death & Murder
This book tells the villain’s side from The Forgotten Beast. There is war related death, along with the murder of Hook’s mother (not on page).
Emotional Abuse
Peter is constantly blackmailing Wendy into being with him. He continually threatens her with her brothers’ lives.
Rape
This includes both non-con (not on page), and dub-con (every time he tells Wendy do this… or else)