Not Your Average Beauty, Historical Romance, 100K

Rosalind Schofield is not your average beauty, and she’s pretty sure that Stephen Pembroke, the Marquess of Barronsfield, is cursed with something. Something like blockheadedness.

Getting a proposal of marriage from a powerful, handsome Marquess should have been a moment straight out of one of Rosalind Schofield’s fairy tales. After a lifetime of being overlooked, she’d hoped for a new start with her guardian, the steward of Barronsfield. But when the proposal comes because Lord Barronsfield wants a plain, unattractive woman for a wife, Rosalind is crushed.  But all is not as it seems, even for Rosalind. As she delves deeper into the stories about Lord Barronsfield, she comes face to face with the curse, the man, and the growing hold he has over her heart.

He is known as the Beast of Barronsfield. Farmers and villagers revile him as the creature that attacks their farms, and women scorn him as the beast whose love will claim their very life.  With his legacy at stake, Stephen makes a desperate bid at marriage to Rosalind Schofield, the most unremarkable woman he had ever met. Plain enough never to secure his love, plain enough to survive his curse. Miss Schofield’s rejection didn’t surprise him, but everything else about her does. When she starts to openly question his curse, he comes to realize that this unremarkable woman is perhaps not as unremarkable as he believed.

Strange things are happening in Barronsfield.  As Rosalind moves closer to the truth, she unwittingly puts herself in the sights of the real beast in Barronsfield, and Stephen must decide if his love will be her salvation or her doom.