Can a wounded beast trust a beauty with a past to tame hismost secret desires?
Reclusive Sir Alistair Munroe has hidden in his castle eversince returning from the Colonies, scarred inside and out. But when amysterious beauty arrives at his door, the passions he's kept suppressed foryears begin to awaken.
Running from past mistakes has taken legendary beauty HelenFitzwilliam from the luxury of the ton to a crumbling Scottishcastle and a job as a housekeeper. Yet Helen is determined to start a new lifeand won't let dust, or a beast of a man, scare her away.
Beneath Helen's beautiful façade, Alistair finds acourageous and sensual woman. A woman who doesn't back away from his surliness orhis scars. But just as he begins to believe in true love, Helen's secret pastthreatens to tear them apart. Now both Beast and Beauty must fight for the onething neither believed they could ever find: a happy ever after.