The Beast of Bestwick by Amalie Howard
The Beast of Beswick by Amalie Howard Series: Regency Rogues Series Book #1
on November 26, 2019
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 384
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Beauty and the Beast meets Taming of the Shrew in this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt Regency romance...
Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable Duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it's hard to like much about the world. Especially smart-mouthed harpies—with lips better suited to kissing than speaking—who brave his castle with indecent proposals.
But Lady Astrid Everleigh will stop at nothing to see her younger sister safe from a notorious scoundrel, even if it means offering herself up on a silver platter to the forbidding Beast of Beswick himself. And by offer, she means what no highborn lady of sound and sensible mind would ever dream of—a tender of marriage with her as his bride.
Each book in the Regency Rogues series is STANDALONE:
* The Beast of Beswick
* The Rakehell of Roth
The Beast of Bestwick is book one in the Regency Rogues series by Amalie Howard. I think I have stumbled across a magnificent author. Amalie Howard has written a beautiful and powerful Regency romance with a hero who is scarred from the inside out. This isn’t just a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Howard steps into deeper issues in this story- examining the treatment of women and the disabled in Britain in the early 1800’s. I thought she did an amazing job of character development. Each person just comes to life, leaping off the page with energy and vulnerability. “Astrid blushed, but his mouth sought hers again, and she pushed herself up on tiptoe to meet him, greedy for more of the sensations bursting like wildfire inside. When he licked deep, ribbons of pleasure unraveled in her veins, making her gasp against his mouth. She clutched at him, at those broad shoulders, winding urgent fingers into fabric and slanting her mouth on his, desperate to match the delicious, decadent flex of his tongue.” There are a number of steamy sex scenes. I am looking forward to reading more from Ms. Howard. I was given a copy of this book.
