The Beast...and Gingerbread‪?‬

He protects the kingdom, but she might just be his sweetest weakness

Everyone fears the Beast of the Eastwood.

Ginny Bakker offers him a cookie. Then scolds him for biting its head off.

You're supposed to start with the feet.

Tristan has spent ten years alone, hiding from his past in a forest cottage with two wolfhounds and no intention of entertaining visitors. Especially cheerful ones. Especially the woman who follows him home with a tin of gingerbread and refuses to be frightened.

He tells her to leave.

She asks to come inside.

His dogs are already on her side.

Ginny crossed worlds to find her sister. She never expected to find a grumpy prince who feeds widows, rescues lambs, and looks at kindness as though it hurts. Everyone sees a monster. She sees the man he buried beneath the beard.

But Tristan's exile hides more than a broken heart. And Ginny's curiosity could uncover secrets powerful people would rather leave forgotten.

He knows she's too young, too bright, full of possibility to choose his life.

She thinks he should stop deciding things for her.

Because this Beast might be stubborn.

But she's brought cookies. She's not finished with him yet.