Claimed by the Buried Beast - Extended Edition

He went into the mine to document a legend. He came out changed by it.

Evan’s search for abandoned Blackwood Mine begins as a simple field assignment—photograph unstable tunnels, record mineral formations, ignore old stories about spirits beneath the mountain. But the deeper he descends, the stranger the cavern becomes. Dust glitters like stars. Stone pulses with heat. Carvings shift when he isn’t looking.

When the tunnel collapses, Evan is forced into a hidden chamber carved from living stone, an underground cathedral of crystal, heat, and bioluminescent veins. At its center lies the Buried Beast, a creature older than the mountain itself, formed from obsidian tendrils, quartz-plated limbs, and a consciousness that recognises Evan instantly.

The mine did not collapse by accident.

It sealed itself to keep him.

The Extended Edition delves deeper into Evan’s transformation, the mineral cravings that follow him aboveground, and the ancient network of sleeping creatures connected through the earth. As the Beast’s presence grows inside him, Evan must decide whether he was trapped…

…or claimed.

A dark MM eldritch monster romance of underground possession, geological transformation, ancient consciousness, and the bond between a human and the creature carved from the mountain’s heart.

Expect: eldritch horror romance, MM monster romance, geological lifeform, dark sci fi fantasy, underground entity, crystalline transformation, ancient consciousness, buried beast, mineral cravings, obsidian tendrils, forced proximity, moving cavern, underground cathedral, cosmic bond, dark MM romance.