His silence along with everything else made my next words dangerously impudent. My wrist oozed blood and my stomach twisted with nausea. My shoulders ached from their position and the recent collision with the gate. The longer I stood there, the more my injuries started calling attention to themselves. “It’s not my wish, but theirs, that I die.” “Does it look to you like I came here by choice?” A harsh laugh escaped me. Some of the anger had faded from it and was replaced by curiosity. “Why do you wish for death so badly?” the voice asked.

He could speak? With a curtain of hair in the way and my vision not cooperating, I closed my eyes in defeat. “Why have you returned?” asked an angry voice in a deep scraping growl.

She must learn when it is right to forgive and when it is time to move on. The Beauty and the Beast saga ends with Devastation…Ībused and rejected, Benella strives to regain a purpose for her life, and finds herself returning to the last place she ever wanted to see. In order to gain her freedom, she must find a way to break the curse, but first, she must help him become a better man while protecting her heart. It might be the taxing visits from the aged enchantress who cursed him or his growing vexation at not being allowed to touch Benella. She’s too preoccupied attempting to determine what makes the beast so beastly. Safely hidden within the estate’s enchanted walls, Benella no longer has time to fear her tormentors. Intended for mature readers due to sexual situations and moderate language. A classic fairy tale with a seductively dark new twist, the Beauty and the Beast saga begins with Depravity. Her encounter with the beast starts a bizarre cycle of bargaining for her freedom, a freedom the beast seems determined to see her lose. When her tormentors lock her behind the massive gates, Benella knows her fate is sealed. Unfortunately, the best wild fruit and vegetables are near the walls of the estate, a dark misty place inhabited by an unforgiving beast. ** Adult Romance ** Benella is concerned with two things–avoiding the two village boys who torment her and scrounging for food to help feed her family.

Deceit by M.J. Haag