Claimed by the Buried Beast
He came seeking a legend.
He found something beneath the mountain waiting to claim him.
Drawn by stories of the abandoned Blackwood Mine—a sealed shaft that refuses to remain closed—he descends expecting danger, forgotten history and perhaps proof of something unexplained.
Instead, he finds a living intelligence woven through stone and crystal.
The deeper he travels, the more the mountain responds. Mineral-rich dust clouds his thoughts, heightens every sensation and awakens needs his human body was never designed to withstand. Then the tendrils emerge, and escape becomes impossible.
Restrained beneath the earth, he is penetrated, filled and transformed by a creature whose purpose is older than humanity. Yet when he finally returns to the surface carrying its luminous legacy, fear is no longer what he feels.
The mountain did not merely use him.
It chose him.
Claimed by the Buried Beast is Book 1 of the Buried Beast Duet—a dark MM tentacle novella featuring an abandoned mine, ancient intelligence, forced impregnation, altered-state consent, bodily transformation and sacred monster claiming.
