The Duke has sworn never to marry for love after a traumatic past. Evelyn needs a protector to save her sisters from poverty. Their arrangement is meant to be purely transactional: a marriage of convenience. However, as the walls of the ducal mansion close in around them, the line between duty and desire blurs into oblivion.
The title suggests a fairy tale, but Stone subverts the "Beauty and the Beast" trope. The heroine learns that physical beauty attracts attention, but inner resilience keeps a partner. La bella y el duque - Mariah Stone.epub
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