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The Beast's Heart: A Novel of Beauty and the Beast
The Beast's Heart A Novel of Beauty and the Beast Author:Leife Shallcross 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 man?yet I am both. — I am the Beast. — He is a broken, wild thing, his heart?s nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the... more » dusty hallways of his ruined château with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company?until a weary traveler disturbs his isolation.
Bewitched by the man?s dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the château. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her father?s 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 Isabeau?s love is only the first impossible step in breaking free from the curse . . .« less