What if Belle fell in love with and married someone else? What if her sister, Rachel, fell in love with and married the Beast instead? What if Gaston fell for a poor girl, but his uncle disapproved of her? Gaston's uncle would do everything he could to keep them apart.

David Madison mysteriously vanished while in Vietnam, only to resurface a staggering eleven years later, the memories of his unexplained absence completely erased from his mind. In the meantime, his wife Margaret has remarried. David takes up a job as a security guard but quits due to his unpleasant boss Jerry. Jake Peterson is wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. David transitions into becoming a private investigator and begins working for Nicholas Romanov. Shockingly, he uncovers the identity of Nicholas' client, unraveling a plethora of secrets about his own family and his wife in the process.