Showing results for "The Beast" in Romance

Rosie Thorne and her father have been short on luck - and money - for years. So when she loses her grocery store job in a heated moment of smashing the patriarchy, she knows she may be forced to give up on her dream of leaving her small town for a prestigious college creative writing program. On the other hand, Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as Rosie’s been clipping coupons and secretly writing massively popular fanfiction. When a tabloid scandal catches up to him, he’s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA.

With his 15th birthday just around the corner, Arnold Ethon's feeling the pressure. He still doesn't have a Spirit Beast, that special creature deeply connected to a person's soul. It's like a mirror of their inner self. Some lucky ones get unique powers that match their Spirit Beast, while others can even make these mystical beings appear in the real world. But Arnold? He's still waiting for his to show up.

Rosalie’s family has already lost everything, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to protect them from further harm. Even if that means stopping ignorant newcomers from picking enchanted roses. Dimitri knows little about his new kingdom, and he can’t help being captivated by the fiery girl who holds the answers. But Rosalie seems horrified by both his presence and his handsome face, and it turns out she has good reason. In the kingdom of Glandore, it’s a dangerous thing to be a young man of royal blood living alone in a castle.

Once eighteen-year-old Connor Moore stumbles across an almost human species, he is faced with history's darkest secret, a daunting future, and a love life he can't even begin to explain. Concealed throughout the pages of time, there has been a powerful race of human-like creatures manipulating mankind. This Elite race is made up of five ruling families, who have obeyed The Law and remained content to keep their identities a mystery.

They say Château Beaumont is cursed. But servant-girl Lucie can’t believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup Christian Henri LeNoir, Chevalier de Beaumont, master of the estate. But when the chevalier's cruelty is revealed, Lucie vows to see him suffer. A wisewoman grants her wish, with a spell that transforms Jean-Loup into monstrous-looking Beast, reflecting the monster he is inside. But Beast is nothing like the chevalier. Jean-Loup would never patiently tend his roses; Jean-Loup would never attempt poetry; Jean-Loup would never express remorse....

Netflix’s Wednesday meets Norse mythology in this gorgeous dark contemporary fantasy following a teen berserkr sent to a secret magical academy where she must unmask the real killer behind the gruesome campus murders or risk becoming the next victim. Edith has always been a good girl—she has...

Being the first librarian in their small town is everything Beatrice Montgomery has ever dreamed of–except no one in town knows what to make of her, or the library. But spending her days surrounded by books is an occupation beyond her wildest dreams, and she'll do whatever it takes to make the library a success. Lord Alexander Dunham's time is running out. Providing for his estate and the people dependent on him before his curse ruins his life is his first priority--and that means he needs a wife, immediately.

Agatha Blair has been a governess with the Everards for nearly two years. She is plain, and she is secretly in love with the boring, brooding brother of her wards. Benedict Everard is the eldest of all the Everard children. His sisters call him the beast. To Bewitch a Beast is the first story of...

Noc, leader of the assassins of Cruor, may have broken the curse that's kept him trapped for so many years, but the dark magic won't be denied. If he doesn't kill Leena—the girl he can't live without—then his own life will be given as payment. To make matters worse, the truth of his past has fallen into the hands of his enemies, threatening everyone he's ever loved. And their time is running out.

Prince Everard’s father spent the boy's youth forging him into a warrior. Upon the king’s death, however, Everard realizes he’s lost himself somewhere along the way, and in his pain, makes a rash decision that brings a dark curse upon both him and the great Fortress that has so long guarded the people of Destin.

Der Herr der Unterwelt entfesselt seine Rache und nur ein Mädchen ohne Vergangenheit und ohne magische Kräfte kann ihn aufhalten. Zurück in der Menschenwelt, müssen Tamsin und ihre Freundinnen sich dem stellen, was sie über alle Anderswelten gebracht haben: Lord Death ist seinem Gefängnis entkommen und die Zerstörung Avalons war erst der Anfang. Doch er möchte mehr als nur Rache – die Wilde Jagd sucht etwas für ihn und hinterlässt eine blutige Schneise der Zerstörung. Um Lord Death aufzuhalten, müssen Tamsin und ihre Freundinnen den legendären Spiegel der Bestien finden.

Seventeen-year-old Tayla Jonas longs for a simple life, but after a traumatizing family loss, she is forced to be both mother and sister to her cousins while caring for her mentally unstable aunt. Moving to her grandma's quiet town of Cody, Wyoming, Tayla finds some normalcy with her quirky green-activist friend, Chel, who wastes no time converting her to vegetarianism.

Eine Hexe und ein Dämon als neues Power-Couple der Universität? Hexe Ginger steckt in einem magischen Schlamassel: Sie muss in die elitäre Studentenverbindung Aurora Star aufgenommen werden, damit sie nicht enterbt wird. Doch leider hat Ginger keinen allzu guten Ruf, da sie ihre Fähigkeiten nicht unter Kontrolle und durch ihre Feueraffinität schon mehr als einen Brand verursacht hat. Der charmante Halbdämon Colin kommt ihr da gerade recht. Als berühmt-berüchtigter Bad Boy und Schwarm der ganzen Uni wäre er der perfekte Fake-Boyfriend, um ihren Status zu verbessern – und außerdem ist er feuerfest.

Nominiert für das beste Buch beim Selfpublishing-Buchpreis 2023/24! Und so zog die Schöne aus, das Biest zu erschlagen... Sechzehn Jahre hat Jade Labelle auf den Tag gewartet, an dem sie offiziell in die Gilde der Monsterjägerinnen aufgenommen wird. Als sie den Auftrag erhält, eine Bestie auf einem verlassenen Adelsgrundstück zu töten, scheint ihr Ziel endlich in Reichweite. Auf dem alten Beauprince-Anwesen wartet allerdings kein Ungeheuer auf sie, sondern eine verängstigte junge Frau namens Louise.

Prince Alexander has been turned into a werewolf and has one year to find someone to love the beast and break the spell, or he will be a wolf forever. He has nearly given up achieving the impossible, knowing no girl would ever fall in love with such a monster. Just when he is about to abdicate the throne to his cousin, he meets Cecelia Hammerstein-Smythe, while a wolf, and begins to hope for the first time in months.

A dying world. An academy to train seafaring heroes. Four 18-year-olds trying to survive it all. Silver beasts, lack of provisions, royal intrigue, and cloaked threats plague this realm. Four young people are chosen to attend the Hall of Explorers academy to train their minds, bodies, and magic, to sail and find their people a new world. Before they brave the unknown seas, they must complete their training. Not to mention getting to know each other and become a tight-knit team. Disturbing and bloody incidents soon make that even harder than it should be.

Isabella “Bella” Rinaldi has lost everything. All she carries into her new life is her gift for translating forgotten languages—and a mysterious, unreadable book. When she meets Prince Leopold, she discovers his secret: each full moon he transforms into a beast, trapped by a deadly curse. He believes Bella’s book may hold the key to his salvation.

Isabelle Berger has little interest in men. So when a boorish hunter proposes, the timid girl begs her protective father to decline on her behalf. But after her beloved papa is killed tracking a wolf with her would-be husband, Isabelle flies into a rage and sets off in pursuit of the fiendish creature. Thrown from her horse while hunting the beast, the bookish young woman is quickly drawn to the mysterious stranger who rescues her. But when her rugged savior loses his temper, Isabelle is terrified by the dark secret he’s hiding.

Seventeen-year-old Tayla will never forget Beast's fiery-venom spreading through her body like an infection. Now, with her best friend Chel's help, she must find a human true love before the last petal falls from her enchanted rose or the full moon will transform her into a wolf forever. But Tayla never expected that her biggest obstacle would come from inside - a wolf presence threatening to take her very soul.

Nadie está a gusto en su propio cuerpo. Pero Dylan siente que el suyo es demasiado. Demasiado alto, demasiado peludo, demasiado grande. En terapia conocerá a Jamie y, por primera vez en su vida, encajará. Ella le mira como nadie lo ha hecho antes. Y cuando él la mira, ve en ella todo lo que siempre ha querido. En cambio los demás, cuando miran a Jamie, ven algo completamente distinto. Y cuando la presenta como «su chica», sus amigos se ríen. Demasiado.