Beware the Beast

by Anne Mather

Alex Faulkner was a complete stranger to Charlotte when he walked into her life and forced her – blackmailed her, in fact – into marrying him, and whisked her off to live with him on a lonely Greek island. And he made it quite clear that all he really wanted from her was a son, the sooner the better. It was, Charlotte thought desperately, a Beauty and the Beast situation, for she was powerless to escape him. Yet in the story, Beauty had fallen in love with the Beast, hadn’t she? Suppose that happened to Charlotte? Yet Alex had made it plain that he had only one use for her…

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?