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Midnight Roses

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Formerly 'Wild Roses and Taming Thorns'. 

Turn the clock back to when kings ruled their kingdoms and everyone believed in the power of true loves' kiss. This is the story of a beast and his beauty. Belle is a teenager whose life is in shambles-her family have been brought to poverty by a twist of fate, and her father is now indebted to a fearsome duke. In order to save both her father and her family's happiness, Belle gives herself up to the duke without question. 

  Belle finds the duke's appearance horrifying and his manners attrosious-but can love bloom in the darkest hour of night?All Rights Reserved

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