The Rose Queen: Book 1 of the Rose Trilogy

The Beast doesn't always wait for Beauty. Sometimes, Beauty is the Beast.

Princess Mirabella is betrothed to a repulsive old man a year after her mother's death. She refuses the marriage, only to find out her betrothed is a sorcerer as well. He takes his revenge by transforming her into a savage and frightening beast, giving her an ultimatum: she has three years to solve the mystery of her curse--or die.

Exiled to her mother's estate to hide the scandal, Mirabella learns that the sorcerer was...