Raised ?on her Grandma's one unbr%e(akab
le r_ule, s^[ tay ].%away from serpen,$ ts,  she never expe]
cts t#: o sa$!+ve a heav\.i/ly w*% oun%=ded
\_ m\an,; in the forest. Lit$ tle does; she ( kn ]#ow, the man she's!_*_+ ^+saved is the ;\feared Si+lv,$er Serpent`( King, Silvan.$ ,_% He's made[+ up his mi!?nd  and has ma\rked her as his. On Bella's weddin\-*g d?\\=ay, he :$cras`+hes the ceremony a[^nd dec?lar^ =es her his +in front.@  [o+f everyo.ne. D)e-` spera#*te to ^.e**[-sca$pe this possessive mons@]ter.-, Bell;(a dec;*ides to ru. n away^. with her childhood sweetheart,=_. But to her shock, the m((*an she trus/*ts most! betrays he+@,#r and,`:! offe_*r/ :s he+r u)p as -a s\+!a
/c[r+if%;i[ce. Betray]ed#, hunted, !)and on the edge of ),death, the man; she once feared m?^#ost beco*mes th e o,[nl`-y *^.on:\e l_=:eft protecting her.