After the beast became human, Belle turned into the animal.We all know the story. The dangerous and ugly Beast finds his true love in Belle, and after a horrific fight with Gaston, the beast is finally transformed back into a man. But what happens after that?It's almost two years later, and Belle is no longer the sweet woman the Beast fell in love with. She sweeps into towns with her ruthless army to pillage every book she can find and add it to her library. Beast is lonely, saddened by the lover he can't understand, but then an old enemy returns to the castle.Gaston is not the man he used to be. He made a promise to himself when he survived that fall, broken but alive. He'd make his amends to the beast, someway, somehow.When at last Gaston and Beast start a forbidden romance, the evil that is Belle returns to the castle...