--"What's wrong princess? Should I bow down before you? Perhaps bless the very hay you step upon?" Brooke grinned,-- Tehya has lost everything. Her home, her family and even the horses she once cherished. Taken to live in her Uncle's castle she spends her days gazing from her giant attic window wishing for her numb feelings to end. Then whilst trying to escape the many guards which protect her Tehya stumbles apon Mr Heathdale...the stable man who under his dirty clothes and muddy face is a handsome man who brings a lightness to her heart that no other man ever had...

An adaptation to the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast", Rhys Ashcroft is vain and arrogant until a near-fatal accident brutally maims his features. Presumed dead, Rhys resides alone in Falmouth Castle, away from society which was just the way he preferred. Enter Danielle Carmichael: a curious country miss who is drawn to the hostile, cloaked stranger for reasons unknown to her.