Beast
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- Author: Judith Ivory
- Publisher: Avon HarperCollins
- Year: 1997
- Setting: 1902, On board ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, Southern France
- Amazon Listing: Beast
[edit] Book Description
In this Beauty and the Beast tale, an exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored-which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous cad-a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless affair with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day.
Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancee's ship-and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten-while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart-unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.
[edit] Related Titles
Though unnamed, Nardi Saint Vallier, the hero of Bliss, appears briefly in the second half of the novel.
