She bought his freedom. He awakened her curse.
New Orleans, 1847.
Evangeline Delacroix is everything society expects a wealthy Creole woman to be—beautiful, refined, respectable, and untouched. Behind the locked doors of her mansion on Rue Royale, however, she hides desires no proper lady should possess.
Then she sees Gabriel Renoix.
Penniless, devastatingly handsome, and blessed with the face of an angel, Gabriel becomes the object of Evangeline's darkest fantasies. When his father's debts threaten to ruin his family, she makes an irresistible offer.
She'll erase every debt.
Her price? One year with Gabriel beneath her roof. Gabriel expects servitude. Instead, he finds luxury, temptation, and a woman determined to discover how far his innocence extends.
But Beauty isn't nearly as innocent as the Beast believes.
As forbidden attraction becomes obsession, Gabriel discovers Evangeline's most carefully guarded secrets—and rather than flee, he wants more. Then the roses begin blooming black. Something walks the mansion after midnight, and an old family curse carries a deadly warning:
When a Delacroix woman falls in love, someone dies.
Evangeline has spent her life fearing the Beast within her. Gabriel may be the first man wicked enough to desire it.
Because in this dark, gender-reversed Beauty and the Beast retelling, Beauty doesn't want to escape the Beast.
He wants to belong to her.
Genre: General Fiction
New Orleans, 1847.
Evangeline Delacroix is everything society expects a wealthy Creole woman to be—beautiful, refined, respectable, and untouched. Behind the locked doors of her mansion on Rue Royale, however, she hides desires no proper lady should possess.
Then she sees Gabriel Renoix.
Penniless, devastatingly handsome, and blessed with the face of an angel, Gabriel becomes the object of Evangeline's darkest fantasies. When his father's debts threaten to ruin his family, she makes an irresistible offer.
She'll erase every debt.
Her price? One year with Gabriel beneath her roof. Gabriel expects servitude. Instead, he finds luxury, temptation, and a woman determined to discover how far his innocence extends.
But Beauty isn't nearly as innocent as the Beast believes.
As forbidden attraction becomes obsession, Gabriel discovers Evangeline's most carefully guarded secrets—and rather than flee, he wants more. Then the roses begin blooming black. Something walks the mansion after midnight, and an old family curse carries a deadly warning:
When a Delacroix woman falls in love, someone dies.
Evangeline has spent her life fearing the Beast within her. Gabriel may be the first man wicked enough to desire it.
Because in this dark, gender-reversed Beauty and the Beast retelling, Beauty doesn't want to escape the Beast.
He wants to belong to her.
Genre: General Fiction