My Brother's Bride Is a Serpent

Summary

My mother brings home a woman named Julia Hayden from the back of the hill and makes her my sister-in-law.

Our family is poor. As Julia is beautiful, my mother forces her to work as a prostitute in secret to earn money for the family.

But a villager, Lara Clay, says Julia is not human.

When my brother sleeps with her, I peek inside through a crack in the door. In the dim yellow light, I see the shadow of a huge snake tightly coiling itself around my brother's body on the wall...