title: Beware the Beast
author: Mather, Anne
description: Charlotte's heart lurched sickeningly at the thought of going away. She honestly didn't know what Alex meant when he answered his mother's question confidently. "Oh yes," he said. "I will be staying now, won't I, Charlotte?"
  
  Charlotte was lost for a reply. Was Alex implying that, because she would be leaving, he would be forced to remain?
  
  Despite what he had said and done, despite her motives for agreeing to his infamous contract, she wanted to stay. This was her home; this man was her husband. And she loved him.
  
  MILLS AND BOON BACK COVER:
  Alex Faulkner was a complete stranger to Charlotte when he walked into her life and forced her - blackmailed her, in fact - into marrying him, and whisked her off to live with him on a lonely Greek island.   And he made it quite clear that all he really wanted from her was a son, the sooner the better.  It was, Charlotte thought desperately, a Beauty and the Beast situation, for she was powerless to escape him.  Yet in the story, Beauty had fallen in love with the Beast, hadn't she?  Suppose that happened to Charlotte?  Yet Alex had made it plain that he had only one use for her......
  
  Hero: Alex Faulkner
  Heroine: Charlotte Mortimer