The Beast

Next in the McQuoid Family Saga-He doesn't believe in love. She doesn't know how to stop wanting it.From Christi Caldwell comes a dark Regency romance of power, betrayal, and desire.One reckless night. One mystery man. One truth that refuses to stay buried.Fleur McQuoid is left with nothing but questions-and a single clue she cannot ignore. A night that should have been forgotten... and a man she cannot.Her search draws her into the path of another. A man as cold as he is powerful... a duke who looks at her as though she is nothing-and yet watches her as though she is already his.The recently jilted Duke of Hartwell is a man of control, distance, and unwavering restraint-entirely untouched by sentiment. A man who does not love. Who does not yield. Who does not forgive weakness-least of all in himself.Yet, through his loyalty to his brother, he remains entangled with the McQuoid family.A family he considers beneath him. A family he has no intention of ever joining.He requires a suitable wife. A proper duchess. Obedient. Flawless. Forgettable.He came dangerously close to making a very inconvenient mistake-a mistake he has no intention of repeating.But Fleur McQuoid- is not so easily dismissed.Somewhere between secrets, pride, and unspoken truths... between defiance and desire... between resistance and ruin... something begins that neither of them can control- and neither of them can escape.Because he does not want her. He should not want her. And yet... he cannot seem to let her go.-and neither may survive.