I Cursed My Own Boyfriend, Apparently

Pavlina Strzyga, the most talented (and least liked) weaver in the dreary village of Kamienna, is livid. A bizarrely ornate chest delivered to her doorstep marks her as the next 'Sacrifice of Solace' - a one-way trip to the monstrous Beast of Mount Gorycz. Resigned to a grim fate, she arrives at the crumbling citadel not to be devoured, but to be... ignored. The Beast, a creature of shifting shadow and chilling whispers, is more melancholic than monstrous, and seems terrified of her. As Pavlina's survival instincts curdle into grudging curiosity, she uncovers the truth: the curse was cast by the legendary Sorceress Lirazna, a figure whose chillingly familiar journals reveal a devastating plan. The sorceress is coming back to finish the job, and the real horror isn't the curse, but the dawning realization that Lirazna's face in the ancient portraits is her own. How can Pavlina save a man she's barely beginning to tolerate from a villain she used to be?