Beau and the Beastie

Having a scholar for a father has given Beau a life of luxurious opportunity to learn and be educated. But when tragedy strikes the poor boy's father, at thirteen, Beau and his mother are forced to move to live with cousins in a mysterious land and in a mysterious village in which Beau does not feel he fits into. Becoming the most handsome eligible bachelor in town by seventeen, Beau comes to find himself encompassed by every eligible bachelorette in town. But all the young man wants to do is study in grand schools such as his late father had and learn the rest of his life, claiming he has no need for love. However, the young studious boy's life is drastically changed when he finds himself a prisoner of a little she beast.

Princess Cecile had all the riches in the world. Her father had passed when she was only seven and her mother followed quickly, leaving the young arrogant, spoiled, insolent, gorgeous girl in charge. She used her power to gain and not give, to indulge herself in things that fired advisors frowned upon. The young princess thought she ruled the world. But on her seventeenth birthday, the day before her coronation, when she decided to throw a grand ball in her honor, a visitor came to the palace. Cecile finds herself a hideous beast in a broken castle alone, promised to turn back to her beautiful self when someone falls in love with her, but how will that ever happen when the one person she becomes so fond of doesn't believe in such a thing as love?