Title: Beast
Series: Beast & Beauty Duet #1
Author: Clarissa Wild
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Release Date: September 1, 2022
BLURB
He has a beastly instinct to devour everything in his path … until her.
I am the giant, menacing monster, known only as the Beast.
Sold to the mafia as a kid and trained to hunt, my life revolves around brutality and carnage.
My home is a cell made of concrete and iron bars.
And there is nothing I won’t do to be free.
Until her.
The innocent black-haired girl with pretty pink lips, whose father I was supposed to hunt, dares to get in my way.
But when I grab her and look into her eyes, I can’t bring myself to finish the job.
She makes me feel hope. Greed.
And a frenzied desire to touch her.
Taste her.
Make her mine.
I was supposed to destroy everything in my path.
Instead, I took her … and consumed her whole.
Renee’s Five Star Review
I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is the first book in the Beauty & Beast Duet. This is a dark romance and it will contain triggers for some readers. You need to heed the warnings in the beginning of the book.
This is also a book you are not going to be able to put down. I was so into this book that I didn’t lay it down until I was finished. Beast is a man who was sold to the mafia as a boy. Placed in a cell, and trained to do their will. That cell and jobs are all his life basically consists of. But on one job he meets Aurora. He is there to destroy her world as she knows it and kill her father. One look at her and he can’t do the job. He has never not done what he was told to do but there is something about Aurora that makes him feel things he has never felt before. Aurora is living a terrible life. This poor girl has been through so much that it will break your heart for her. I loved that we got her backstory throughout the book. Her father is horrible and she even is used to pay her debts by being held captive. She is certainly a naive, innocent, super sheltered and is broken, so very broken. Beast is drawn to her instantly but his owner Lex wants her and her father dead. But when things don’t go as planed it leads to us as readers getting one heck of a story. I can not wait to dive into the next book. Thank goodness that book, Beauty releases really soon after you finish this one. You do not want to miss this book. I read a lot of dark books and Clarissa Wild is one of my favorites at writing the dark stories I love so much.
This is also a book you are not going to be able to put down. I was so into this book that I didn’t lay it down until I was finished. Beast is a man who was sold to the mafia as a boy. Placed in a cell, and trained to do their will. That cell and jobs are all his life basically consists of. But on one job he meets Aurora. He is there to destroy her world as she knows it and kill her father. One look at her and he can’t do the job. He has never not done what he was told to do but there is something about Aurora that makes him feel things he has never felt before. Aurora is living a terrible life. This poor girl has been through so much that it will break your heart for her. I loved that we got her backstory throughout the book. Her father is horrible and she even is used to pay her debts by being held captive. She is certainly a naive, innocent, super sheltered and is broken, so very broken. Beast is drawn to her instantly but his owner Lex wants her and her father dead. But when things don’t go as planed it leads to us as readers getting one heck of a story. I can not wait to dive into the next book. Thank goodness that book, Beauty releases really soon after you finish this one. You do not want to miss this book. I read a lot of dark books and Clarissa Wild is one of my favorites at writing the dark stories I love so much.
EXCERPT
The thought of sinking my cock into her velvety pussy makes me salivate as much as licking her did.
But first, I need to make sure she understands.
So I crawl on top of her and press my lips to hers. Tasting her mouth is the icing on top of the cake. Kissing her is as enticing as I remember it being, and my cock twitches from the sheer amount of lust coursing through my veins.
I can’t get enough of her.
Until her eyes land on me.
They widen, and she violently jerks away from my lips. She crawls sideways to get out of my hands, shoving down her dress like an angry little bug skittering away in the darkness.
Running away like she has regrets.
Lies.
“That …” she mutters from her little corner far away from me. “Was not supposed to happen.”
My brow rises as I slowly come to a stand. “Then what was supposed to happen?”
She looks up at me in awe as my towel drops to the floor, her eyes sliding down my body to take it all in. But they stop the second they reach my rock-hard dick. And for a single second, her tongue darts out to wet her lips, only to disappear the next second, as if nothing ever happened.
“Oh God,” she says, blocking her own eyes with her hands. “Please put that towel back on.”
“Or what?”
She seems on edge. “It’s inappropriate.”
I tilt my head, amused by this conversation. “Why?”
“I-I don’t know!” she yelps. “Just do something.”
“I did.”
“I … I … not that,” she murmurs, still peeking at my body through her fingers.
A smirk forms on my lips. “Not what?”
I know she felt it.
I could taste her cum.
Her entire face turns red as a beet. “I thought you were going to eat me.”
I wipe my mouth and lick up the remaining juices. “I did.”
“Wha-What?” she mutters, her hand slowly lowering as though she can’t believe her own ears. She finally realizes what I said, and her face only grows redder. “Oh no. No, that was—”
“Delicious,” I reply, my cock oozing pre-cum just from the memory alone.
COMING SOON
Releasing September 8
AUTHOR BIO
Clarissa Wild is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of Dark Romance and Contemporary Romance novels. She is an avid reader and writer of swoony stories about dangerous men and feisty women. Her other loves include her hilarious husband, her two crazy but cute dogs, and her ninja cat that sometimes thinks he’s a dog too. In her free time she enjoys watching all sorts of movies, playing video games, reading tons of books, and cooking her favorite meals.
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