Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance -- Cassie Alexander

<p>Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free-no matter how much it might hurt her.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The intro follows . . .</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Lisane: </strong></p><p><br></p><p>My whole life, I had been a creature used to candlelight.</p><p><br></p><p>But I wasn't accustomed to my own breath hot against my face, or the rough feeling of fabric against my cheek-or knowing that my wrists were tied behind my back, painfully tight.</p><p><br></p><p>The last thing I could recall was being in a carriage...We'd been running away from the Deathless . . .</p><p><br></p><p>And now I was here.</p><p><br></p><p>Wherever here was.</p><p><br></p><p>Tied up, in the dark, on the ground, with a bag around my head.</p><p><br></p><p>The very thing my father had been afraid of for me for my whole life-and the reason I lived in a gilded cage, only getting to leave the palace when I had throne-sworn mages by my side-had apparently happened.</p><p><br></p><p>I had been kidnapped.</p><p><br></p><p>&#9670;&#9670;&#9670;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Rhaim the All-Beast: </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Every mage gets one clear vision on the eve of their Ascension into their full powers, right before they get the brand of their