Frogbound Dark Romance fairytale retelling

Tiana Reed has spent her entire life working toward a future she may never live long enough to enjoy.

In the sleepless heart of the city, ambition is survival, and Tiana has mastered it. Double shifts. Burned-out nerves. Empty relationships. Every sacrifice is worth it if it gets her one step closer to opening the restaurant she’s dreamed of since childhood.

At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself.

Then one terrible night changes everything.

A desperate bargain, a cursed prince trapped beneath layers of arrogance and magic, and a kiss that was never supposed to happen leave Tiana tangled in a world of swamp spirits, ancient Vodou, and creatures that know exactly how exhausted she really is. Suddenly, the life she built through sheer force of will begins unraveling around her.

Because the swamp sees what she refuses to admit:

She’s drowning long before the curse ever touched her.

Now trapped between a dangerously charming Frog Prince who masks loneliness with ego, a fiercely protective crocodile shifter who understands the cost of survival, and a Vodou spirit whose devotion feels equal parts salvation and ruin, Tiana is forced to confront the one thing she’s never allowed herself to want:

Rest.

But magic always demands payment, and the closer she gets to breaking the curse, the more Tiana realizes success means nothing if it destroys the person fighting for it.

Sultry, atmospheric, and emotionally devastating, FROGBOUND is a dark fairytale retelling inspired by The Princess and the Frog, where ambition becomes obsession, love asks for vulnerability instead of sacrifice, and happily ever after only exists if you survive yourself long enough to reach it.