Innocent

"I was eaten, plain and simple. It felt like being burned alive, like every cell in my body was exploding. Then everything stopped--my breathing, my pain, my heart. . ."

Alexa Wyndham is a college student out on her own for the first time on Valentine's day. She is an innocent in every sense of the word, her views of the world formed from the romantic poetry and literary novels she reads. Alexa thinks love should be a perfect dream. Then an evening out in Manhattan lands her in a feverish nightmare full of deadly supernatural beings.

Her only hope for survival is Cristien LaRoche, is a medieval knight, a world-weary monster and a man cursed by his murderous past. He has come for Alexa Wyndham and nothing can stop him, not even himself. He knows he should leave her in peace. Alexa is everything he believes he can no longer be, pure, good, and happy, but Cristien has been alone for so long, and she is the only thing he has ever loved.

Is Alexa strong enough to see the good man inside the monster and free Cristien from the ageless evil that haunts him? When all the veils are torn down and the truth is revealed, will Alexa rise from the ashes like a phoenix or will love destroy her utterly?

"Innocent" is a modern-day retelling of Cupid and Psyche myth with elements from "Jane Eyre" and "Beauty and the Beast." It is passionate, poetic, and at times a humorous novel about the transformative power of love. It will take the reader on a literary, mythic and metaphysical adventure from suffering to redemption, from innocence to heroism. At its heart, The Innocent is an allegory about Love (Cupid) and the immortal Soul (Psyche).