Never Call It Loving — Gail Link

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

A royal ward whose marriage Charles II had arranged, Marisa Fitzgerald didn't meet her betrothed until they stood at the altar and then the young bride got the shock of her life. For after a villainous temptress betrayed him, her husband's enemies had savagely tortured him, scarring his body and soul.

Barely escaping death, Cameron Buchanan had steeled himself to the wiles of women, shutting his embittered heart against further injury. But Marisa was no simpering beauty ready to submit to an overbearing ogre. Somehow, some way, she would tame Cam's brutish demeanor and turn the mighty beast into a loving man.