A retelling of Beauty and the Beast. After Isabel's father is lost at sea, she goes to live with a legal guardian, a distant cousin named Christopher Thorn. She learns that Christopher is not at all what he appears to be. His beastly form and rough demeanor hide a beautiful heart. Beautiful cover by @danikanakker

(Beauty and the Beast) Thistle's brothers left to fight a terrible beast. When they don't return, she sets out to kill the beast herself, but there is more to him than she expects. She must find a way to free her brothers, the only family she has left, but can she break the beast's stone heart when she is losing her own? Once upon a time...

«Tienilo tu. Ascoltalo qualche volta, e ricordati di me.» sorrise la ragazza, porgendoglielo. Il mostro ridacchiò. «Non ho bisogno di un oggetto per ricordarmi di te, ma grazie comunque, lo custodirò come fosse la cosa più preziosa al mondo.» _______________________________________________________________________ Questa storia contiene alcuni riferimenti al film Disney "La Bella e la Bestia", da cui ho preso ispirazione per l'iniziale trama. Spero vi piaccia.

Once there lived a girl, who lived in Thanona, a little provential village. Her mother was dead, her father was a ruined merchant turned inventor, and her sisters were babied. They missed the life they lived before their father's ruin, in the city. But not her. Arabella Durand is happy in the village. She runs her father's house, and takes on all the responsibility therein. But when she catches the eye of the most eligible bachelor in the village, whom she finds arrogant and boarish, Arabella is distraught. After being forced to plan a wedding she doesn't want, due to a misunderstanding, Arabella goes out into the woods to clear her head. She soon gets lost, and comes across a ruined castle. And once she goes inside, she becomes the prisoner of a monster. But sometimes things aren't always what they seem. Love and hatred, jealousy and admiration, monsters and men: they are separated by a fine line. And when that line blurs, Arabella must learn what the difference in truth and reality is. (COMPLETED! Well, the rough draft, at least)

Ella's always been a simple child. She didn't want anything other than a book in her hands and her brother by her side. When her brother finally figures out his invention and ventures out to find someone to buy it, he doesn't return. A creepy mansion, some talking furniture and, oh yeah, a giant animal big enough to kill her with one big step. What's the worst that could happen? This is a retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast.