Big, Bad Mister Wolfe — Hayley MacFarlane

A curse. A seduction. A betrayal.

Upon discovering the truth of her birth, Scarlett Duke is sent to live with her grandmother in the woods. Desperately trying to reconnect with the family who have turned their backs on her whilst fending off marriage proposals from multiple suitors, Scarlett instead finds herself increasingly distracted by the attentions of Adrian Wolfe, a travelling merchant who saved her life two years prior on her sixteenth birthday.

Con-man Adrian Wolfe is determined to finally get rid of the curse placed upon him by the old witch Heidi Duke after he attempted to sell her a useless spell. When he finds the perfect way to force the woman to lift the curse: seducing her grand-daughter, Scarlett, the last thing Adrian expects is to uncover a murderous plot involving the Dukes, all the while falling prey to the shy, innocent charms of the young woman he sought to use for his own selfish means.

Book one in the Chronicles of Curses series, Big, Bad Mister Wolfe is an imaginative retelling of Red Riding Hood. Chronicles of Curses is a series of independent, interconnected fairy tale retellings that can largely be read in any order.