Break the Beast by Allison Tebo

Who is to say who is the real beast? Grendel haunts the land of Frisia in a restless need for vengeance on the human world that has rejected her. With a fiendish master urging her on, she attacks without fear of repercussion. But the arrival of a foreign prince causes Grendel to doubt her invulnerability. Beowulf is renowned for killing monsters, and he can have only one purpose in visiting to break her hellish reign. When the inevitable confrontation occurs, the battle between man and beast will change both their lives forever as they find themselves thrust into a quest for truth neither could have anticipated. Allison Tebo re-imagines the ancient legend of Beowulf in an epic story of redemption and grace in a high-stakes fantasy adventure.

Adult • Fantasy/Epic and High • Fantasy/Mythic, Retelling, and Folklore

Content Warning: TRIGGER WARNINGS (slight spoilers): A mother figure is abusive to the main character (most of the physical abuse is just implied not shown). One character brings back the head of a humanoid monster to his settlement to prove it is dead. Two characters die, but they are meaningful deaths. There is a good bit of battles, but no extreme violence or gore.