Beasts

Shannon Riley, a student of Celtic mythology, interweaves the legend of the Druidic shapeshifters into a suspenseful modern day story of a young wife’s struggle to save her child and herself from a violent and abusive husband and to come to terms with her own identity.

The trauma of witnessing her parents’ murder blocked the memory of Diana’s early childhood from her mind. Now, married and with a baby of her own, she wants only a normal life. Yet something from her past keeps disturbing her sleep, and the sleepwalking she experienced as a child has returned to draw her back to forest paths that seem strangely familiar.

When her jealous and ruthless husband discovers her nightly journeys, he immediately believes the worst: she is cheating with a lover who is likely the father of her child. Escaping his murderous rage, Diana flees to the home of her grandmother, who raised her. There, confronted at last with the truth about the powerful legacy handled down through her family, she must make a decision. But can she accept who – and what – she is in order to save her own life and the life of her child?