My Lord Beast Author:Mary Lennox Lilias Merrit had few options with her father's fortunes in ruins: marriage to a local farmer she would never care for, or employment elsewhere. Choosing the latter, she hires on as nursemaid to Lord Breme, a man rumored to have murdered his wife. Though at first Lilias half believes the rumors, given his lordship's tempers, as she gets to know ... more »him, she becomes aware of two truths. He could not have harmed his wife, and she cannot imagine life without him. Lennox's take on Beauty and the Beast skillfully employs the sense of anticipation and wonder that make the fairy tale a classic story of love and redemption, even as she adds her own clever and well--executed Victorian twist.« less