The Girl and the Beast

A century after her death, the great Empress Martina is reborn as Astina, a count’s daughter — until her family’s bankruptcy forces her to marry the cursed Grand Duke Thereode in her sister’s place. Thereode is doomed to live as a beast, and no one expects Astina to survive the wedding night, but her formidable swordsmanship turns the deadly union into the unlikely start of something more.