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Crown Prince Andrej ‘Drew’ of the White Mountains has one night to choose a bride, and no intention of feeling anything about it.
Feeling is dangerous.
Strong emotion triggers the curse he's hidden his entire life — visions of other people's fears, secrets, and where those secrets lead. But when a bookish, provincial lady's nerves brush against his curse, he sees her wedding day: her hand wrenched, lace tearing, violence closing in. He proposes on the spot. Explanation be damned.
Lady Irma Kaufmann has spent her life as the daughter of a disgraced traitor — never openly snubbed, never warmly received. A practical engagement to the crown prince? She negotiated it with clear eyes: escape from her mother's matchmaking, a library, contentment. She was braced for a transactional marriage.
She was not braced for a fiancé who knows things before they happen. Who defends an engagement that no longer benefits him. Who watches her like a man guarding something he cannot name.
While the court whispers that she was the consolation prize, Irma does what she does best: research. But the trail she's pulling doesn't lead to her strange, guarded prince. It leads to her father's death fifteen years ago — to a forged confession, a convenient magistrate, and a polished, respectable count who has owned her family's debts ever since… and intends to own her next.
Drew can see the danger coming. He cannot say how. And when his fear finally speaks, it says the cruelest thing available — the one sentence Irma has waited her whole life to hear confirmed.
The beast isn't the man the court whispers about. The beast is what it costs him to love her.
A Beauty and the Beast retelling featuring a fake engagement that was never fake, a cursed prince who falls first, a heroine who rescues herself with footnotes, and a happily-ever-after chosen with eyes wide open.
Book 4 of the Charming Fairy Tales — reads as a standalone, rewards series readers with the other side of the ball night from Ending the Curse.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Feeling is dangerous.
Strong emotion triggers the curse he's hidden his entire life — visions of other people's fears, secrets, and where those secrets lead. But when a bookish, provincial lady's nerves brush against his curse, he sees her wedding day: her hand wrenched, lace tearing, violence closing in. He proposes on the spot. Explanation be damned.
Lady Irma Kaufmann has spent her life as the daughter of a disgraced traitor — never openly snubbed, never warmly received. A practical engagement to the crown prince? She negotiated it with clear eyes: escape from her mother's matchmaking, a library, contentment. She was braced for a transactional marriage.
She was not braced for a fiancé who knows things before they happen. Who defends an engagement that no longer benefits him. Who watches her like a man guarding something he cannot name.
While the court whispers that she was the consolation prize, Irma does what she does best: research. But the trail she's pulling doesn't lead to her strange, guarded prince. It leads to her father's death fifteen years ago — to a forged confession, a convenient magistrate, and a polished, respectable count who has owned her family's debts ever since… and intends to own her next.
Drew can see the danger coming. He cannot say how. And when his fear finally speaks, it says the cruelest thing available — the one sentence Irma has waited her whole life to hear confirmed.
The beast isn't the man the court whispers about. The beast is what it costs him to love her.
A Beauty and the Beast retelling featuring a fake engagement that was never fake, a cursed prince who falls first, a heroine who rescues herself with footnotes, and a happily-ever-after chosen with eyes wide open.
Book 4 of the Charming Fairy Tales — reads as a standalone, rewards series readers with the other side of the ball night from Ending the Curse.
Genre: Paranormal Romance