num_pages: 158
description: In this retelling of the classic French fairytale Beauty and the Beast Keuser has melded magic clockpunk and romance to create a story that expands on the themes of both original versions as well as that of the 1995 Disney classic.Isabelle Marchant has only days left before her aunts plans to be rid of her come to fruition. Jaquel Gaston waits in the wings to marry her and take her far away to a life of servitude and silence. Tricked by an enchanted forest during a rainy walk home Isabelle is lured to a long forgotten castle where she finds a prince disfigured with clockwork and a palace full of orphans subject to a dark fairys whims.Arthur Velois has spent six years imprisoned in his castle as the dark fairys pet. His only consolation is that her presence is dictated by the full moon. When the forest brings him an orphan who is neither a child nor a boy he knows he and his charges will have to keep the fairys mechanical minions from discovering her. And though he knows he needs to find a way for her to leave a selfish lonely part of him wants to keep her in his home and in his bed.
language: English
title: Beauty & The Clockwork Beast
publisher: Createspace