A luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France--and told from the point of view of the Beast himself.
I am neither monster nor manβyet I am both.
I am the Beast.
He is a broken, wild thing, his heartβs nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined chΓ’teau with only magical, unseen servants to keep him companyβuntil a weary traveler disturbs his isolation.
Bewitched by the manβs dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the chΓ’teau. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her fatherβs life for her own and agrees to remain with the Beast for a year. But even as their time together weaves its own spell, the Beast finds winning Isabeauβs love is only the first impossible step in breaking free from the curse . . .
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