Beauty wants answers.At last the cursed castle of Roseal has hope. After a century, they've found a girl whose love could break the fey's spell that turned the young king and his people into monsters. But the suspicious Evanna isn't falling in love with anyone until she gets answers from her captors. Unfortunately, if they tell the truth to her, they'll die.One castle servant is willing to risk a game of half-truths and lies to convince Evanna to love the king she's named Beast. Zare tells himself he'll do anything to save the people he cares for, but the more time he spends with Evanna, the more he realizes he's not ready for the end.Time is running out. Evanna's not getting any friendlier with the Beast, and the fey are coming to kill her. Will Zare have to sacrifice himself to tell the Beast's story and save the castle before it's too late?This is a retelling of and "Beauty and the Beast, and " with clean romance and page-turning plot twists. First book in an interconnected world of fairy tale retellings, which can be read alone or together.