Twisted Tales: "Beauty and the Beast" by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

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Fantasy and reality collide in this retelling of Beauty and the Beast about a young woman's heroic quest to save herself. Yes, I went to the woods to save my father. But I also went hoping I would be eaten by the Beast. Because I didn't think anything else could save me. Beauty's life is the stuff of fairy tales. The youngest in her family, Beauty isn't trying to catch Stephan's eye. He is the lord baron's heir, well above her family's modest station, but when he kisses her hand at a party, Beauty is swept away by his charm, his wit, and his passionate declarations of love. Hearts can be untamable creatures, especially when touched by the fires of first love, and Beauty doesn't see the truth of Stephan's intentions until it is too late. Until he stops asking for Beauty's love--and simply takes it from her one night despite her refusal. Beauty locks away the secret of what happened to her, and when her father emerges from the enchanted forest with a stolen rose in his hand and the tale of a vicious beast on his breath, Beauty seizes the chance to run as far from Stephan as possible. She has some experience with beasts, after all. Certainly the one in the forest couldn't be any worse than the one she's already encountered. Breaking the Beast's curse might be the key to discovering her own path to healing--and finding the courage to allow herself to feel reborn.

A boy destined to become a beast...And a girl determined to save him. Margot's been invited to the medieval town of Chapais, France for a reunion of the town's descendants. She plans to stay with her aunt, who lives above the family bookshop inside the ancient walled city. Little does she know that three fairies have called her there to help a beastly teenage boy break the curse that has plagued his family for generations. Proud and arrogant, the boy pushes everyone away until Margot finds a way to reach him. But when they get close to breaking the curse, the romantic summer turns into a nightmare. Can they set the beast free before it's too late?

If a princess transformed into a beast, could a man see through that fearsome ugliness enough to love her? The poisonous jealousy of a sister gives birth to curse of vengeance. The body of a princess is warped and twisted into the form of a scaly, snake-like monster, and her mind is lost in shadow. A misfit minstrel, with a voice like sunshine, may be her only hope for salvation--but only if he survives their first encounter. A thrilling and unexpected reversal of the timeless romance of "Beauty and the Beast" launches Alydia Rackham's epic fairy tale series.

True beauty lies within.Except inside The Vault, where life can be ugly and love is dangerous.Under its protective shield, Beauty spends her nights reading and her days scavenging precious artifacts in hopes of securing a good life after the war--until her father loses something precious and must give her to the Beast as payment.The Beast knows The Vault's secrets, and has a dangerous one of his own. Hiding behind a mask and his fearsome reputation, the Beast is racked with guilt and self-loathing. He's given up hope of any kind of happiness--especially love. For who could ever love a monster?But when Beauty enters his life, she discovers the true nature of The Vault--and the man behind the mask. Now they must find a way to stop their enemies from executing their final plan...or not even true love will be enough to survive The Vault.

When Bonnie Libros finds out she's leaving the big city to move to Castlewood where she'll go to high school for the first time in her life, she wishes she could stay behind with her quirky great-aunt Alma who homeschooled Bonnie after her mom died. But with her dad taking a new teaching job in the science department at Castlewood High, Bonnie has no choice but to pack up her favorite books and move to Castlewood the summer before her junior year. Even worse, Bonnie's dad tells her they'll be living at Camp Castlewood for the summer while he works as the camp's STEM Director. When Bonnie ends up with an unexpected summer job at the camp, she's stuck with Clay Sylvester, an experienced outdoorsman who's rough around the edges and wants nothing to do with a city girl like Bonnie. But as rumors swirl that it might be the last summer for Camp Castlewood, Clay and Bonnie grow closer. Can Bonnie help Clay save Camp Castlewood... and can she save herself from falling for him?

A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

The news is all over campus and social media: Beauty and the Beast have officially broken up. And while Beau is sitting around and wallowing in misery eating ice cream, it's up to Red, formally Little Red Riding Hood, and Thumbelina to help their fellow college student up.

Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again. The charming and mysterious characters Belle meets within the pages of Nevermore offer her glamorous conversation, a life of dazzling Parisian luxury, and even a reunion she never thought possible. Here Belle can have everything she ever wished for. But what about her friends in the Beast's castle? Can Belle trust her new companions inside the pages of Nevermore? Is Nevermore's world even real? Belle must uncover the truth about the book, before she loses herself in it forever.

Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must travel to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father insists that he will not let her go, but she responds, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her -- the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams.

When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault -- after all, there's nothing more "beastly" than a girl who expresses her anger -- and the only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love.

When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the curse. But Beau -- spooked by the castle's strange and forbidding ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at night -- only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves.

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