Beauty and Her Beastly Love

Book excerpt: Sheltered Beauty yearns for love. Captive Beast seeks redemption. Trapped in an enchanted manor together, will they find in each other their hearts’ desires? In this grown-up version of Beauty and the Beast, we meet Beauty, a sheltered young woman living in the French countryside with her father. The books her tutor secretly gives her provide the only escape from her cloistered life. Engraved with a beautiful rose, each book breathlessly describes the ways in which men and women lust for and love each other. Beast is a tortured soul trapped in an enchanted manor for the sins of his past. He wants nothing more than redemption. A second chance. When a hapless traveler stumbles upon Beast’s home and attempts to steal one of the library’s rose-covered books, Beast is intrigued. Even more so when the groveling man tells him he only wanted the book for his daughter, who loves to read them. Beast then does the unthinkable: demands the daughter in exchange for the man’s life. Amazingly, the father complies. Beauty is cool to Beast when she arrives, despondent over being trapped with a vile creature, and no hope of knowing the types of passionate, heart-pounding love she’s read about in her books. Beast feels desolate when he realizes that proximity to a woman of passion will not help him atone. He fears all is lost. But a glimmer of kindness can spark passion. Will Beauty and Beast find exactly what they wanted is right in front of them? If you enjoy re-imagined fairy tales, red-hot love scenes, and happily ever afters, then you will love Beauty and Her Beastly Love. Grab this installment of the passion-filled fairy tales series today!