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Book Review of Beast

Beast
Beast
Author: Judith Ivory
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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An exquisite American heiress 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 hideous -- a grim prospect that propels her into a a passionate, reckless relationship 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 darness. The 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 price who hides within.