A Practical Marriage with a Beast: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (Practical Marriages Book 2)

They called him a beast… She saw a man no one else had bothered to look at.

When Edith Hayton arrives at the mist-bound gates of Barendale Manor, she carries nothing but a case of saved books, the last of her coins, and the quiet ruin of everything she once had.

The coachman warns her to turn back.

The villagers cross themselves at the duke’s name.

The locals call him the Beast, and they swear no woman who enters that house leaves it whole.

At four-and-twenty, Edith is already invisible, forgotten, a baron’s daughter stripped to nothing by her father’s debts. She has no reason to fear monsters.

She has already met the worst kind, and survived them.

Marcus Barrington, Duke of Barendale, is everything the gossip promised, and nothing she expected. Beneath the sharp tongue and the closed doors lives a man who reads Virgil to his dead brother’s empty chair, who guards a crumbling library as though it were the last sacred thing he owns, and who has not been truly looked at by another soul in two long, silent years.

Edith was meant only to catalogue his books.

She was never meant to catalogue him.

But the more time the so-called Beast of Barendale spends with the quiet bluestocking who treats his madness as grief and his cruelty as a wound, the more dangerous it becomes for both of them to remain unseen.

He believed himself beyond saving.

She believed herself beyond being chosen.

But some monsters are only men.

And some women are only waiting to be seen.

Perfect for readers who love quiet tension, deep emotional payoff, and a hero who falls first, and harder than he ever intended. A captivating romance novels with no cheating, no cliffhangers.

Just a beautiful happily ever after.

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