Before Beauty

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can the accursed prince and broken beauty move beyond their hatred for one another not only to break the curse and save their kingdom...but to find love as well?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Prince Everard's father forged him into a warrior. Upon the king's death however Everard loses himself in his pain and brings a dark curse upon himself and the great Fortress that has long guarded the people of Destin.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The prince's sin doesn't solely affect those of his citadel however. Isabelle the daughter of a local merchant has suffered the prince's hasty temper before and it changed her life forever. So when Everard's curse cuts off his people's source of protection and he demands that she a crippled commoner help him break it her shock and horror are rivaled only by her indignatation and even stronger desire to protect her family.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All the while Destin's enemy crouches at the foot of the Fortress's mountain waiting for the right moment to capture the stronghold that has stood for a thousand years.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can Everard and Isabelle move past their brokenness to save Destin together? Or will they and their beloved kingdom remain under darkness forever?</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you want the magic of Narnia and the romance of fairy tales read this clean fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast today to escape into the Becoming Beauty Trilogy as well as the Classical Kingdoms Collection a series of fairy tale retellings with magical mystery clean passionate romance and heroic happily-ever-afters.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Author's Note: Before Beauty is an introduction to both series but it can be read as a stand-alone as well.</em></strong></p><p><br></p>