Search - Beauty and The Baron

Beauty and the Beast meets Cyrano in this tale of a wounded war veteran and the woman who makes him reclaim life.

This book was quite interesting, though at times it borrows plot elements from Cyrano de Bergerac and Jane Austen, which weakens its originality.

Good romance - kind of corny in spots but all the requisite bits including a happy ending.

Scarred recluse returns from battle intent on forgetting the past.

Their betrothal was a sham! Could she defeat his darkness and bring him back to life?

Handsome Rakehell turned scarred recluse Lord Daventry returnes from battle intent on forgetting the past. Yet once home he was presented with one final mission, marry Angela Lacewood and grant his ailing grandfathers dying wish or at least pretent to marry. But the young beauty he remembers was now an exqistive woman. A woman strong enough to breach the walls he his behind and steal his heart

Abandoning her childhood dreams of marriage, Angela Lacewood is resigned to life as a poor spinster when she receives an unusual proposal from Lord Lucius Daventry. To please his dying grandfather, Lucius wants Angela to pretend to be his fiancee, and in return he will help Angela's brother purchase a commission in the military. Angela would do anything for Lucius' grandfather, who happens to be one of her dear friends, but she has her qualms about becoming involved with Lucius, whose wicked reputation as "Lord Lucifer" is the subject of much local gossip. Giving into Lucius' request, Angela soon finds that the disfigured war veteran has his reasons for haunting the night, but even more disturbing is the fact that she is falling in love with the reclusive nobleman. A sunny heroine with a penchant for sweets and a brooding hero with a love of the stars find their own happily-ever-after ending in Hale's latest gracefully written historical, which features both sweet charm and delicate wit.