Title: Beautiful Beast

Author: Aubrey Irons

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 17, 2017

Blurb

Anastasia:

Here’s the first thing you should know: this is not a fairytale.
Happily-ever-afters are fables, and Prince Charming is a sweet little lie.
I know all this because he taught me.
Once upon a lifetime ago, the rich, arrogant, sinfully gorgeous, and tragically
broken dark prince of the Hamptons was my tormentor. My darkness, my shameful
attraction, my all-consuming, forbidden temptation.
I hate Sebastian Crown because nine years ago, for one night, I was stupid
enough to think I loved him. And I’ve been paying for it ever since.
Except now, he needs me to help him save his empire.
…And he’s not taking no for answer.

Bastian:

She’s my nemesis. My addiction. My weakness.
My obsession.
I used to tell myself I hated Anastasia Bell – for being poor, for not
worshipping the ground I walked on, for looking at me like she pitied me for
being me.
When the rest of my world always told me yes, she was the ever-provoking no.
She thinks I’m a monster – a tragic, fucked-up, broken beast.
She doesn’t know the half of it.
Because she can’t begin to know the crimes of my past, or imagine the things
I’ve done to her behind the scenes since she left this place.
Years ago, I thought breaking her would fix me.
I was wrong.
Now I’ve got her in my sights again, and this time, I won’t be letting her go.
Even if it means we both go down in flames…

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The thin line between love and hate is the basic crux of Beautiful Beast, a dark erotic reimagining of Beauty & The Beast.

Sebastian — or Bastian, the beast — is an arrogant, rude, jerk. He tormented Anastasia Bell, the daughter of his family’s gardener, for years. Seemingly for no real reason, because the truth was something that he never wanted to admit to himself. When Ana’s father falls ill, Bastian summons her back to the Crown Estate to take over her father’s job. Of course, that’s nothing more than a ruse because he needs so much more from her in order to save his legacy. And even himself.

The story unfolds between the past and the present, setting up the enemies-to-lovers romance. As far as damaged alphas go, Bastian has it all. He’s been orphaned, lived a rich and privileged life where he was never told no, and when he couldn’t get the one thing he wanted, he played God with Ana’s life so that no one else could have her either. I wasn’t really sure how Aubrey Irons was going to make him redeemable because Bastian just did so many despicable things to Ana over the years. But out of the darkness of this monster, there is a glimmer of humanity left inside Bastian, and when the story comes to its climax, it was enough for me to fall hook, line and sinker for this damaged, broken man.

Aubrey Irons did a bang-up job with this bad boy romance, right down to the garden of roses. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.