Violet Malone is a beauty beyond compare. Carefree. She has the world at her fingertips and a bright future ahead of her. Someone wants to steal that future. Someone wants to twist Violet’s beauty into suffering and pain. There are monsters in the world, and this one is willing to pay a premium to ensure the innocent beauty cannot escape him.

Every bounty, every job demands something new from Lionel “Beast” Plantier. This time he’s been hired to kidnap an innocent maiden and deliver her to the devil in disguise. This time, the rejection, the repulsion and disgust caused by his horrible scars is taken from him with one soft, feminine caress. This time, he will risk everything to save an untouched beauty from a true monster, even marry her himself.

But what will happen when this beauty is forced to marry a beast?