"Hands like paws: fur-covered fingers, clipped claws, soft pads on fingertips and palms. They gripped into the curve of her hips, thumbs stroking behind, fingers tightening around the front of her legs. Soft as those fingertips were, she knew she would later have scratches where his fingers had dug in at the moment of climax. She had grown used to these, and the bite marks on her neck and legs. She had even grown used to the howl that followed. She had grown used to belonging to a beast." An erotic retelling of the classic fairytale "Beauty and the Beast," this novella follows a beautiful young woman as she makes a dangerous agreement to become the lover to a man cursed to live as a beast.