Rick R. Reed
Inspired by the timeless tale, â€œBeauty and the Beast,â€ by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Rick R. Reed has crafted a new fairy tale for our times that manages to be ethereal, romantic and ripped-from-the-headlines realistic.,Beau is a down-on-his-luck street artist living on the streets of Seattle, drawing portraits of tourists to make enough money to live hand-to-mouth. He has a knack for capturing his subjectsâ€™ â€œvery soulsâ€ on paper. One rainy night, he is accosted by a group of fag-bashing thugs, intent on robbing him of his art supplies and humiliating Beau for who he is. Beau is beaten into unconsciousness...,...And awakens in a beautiful bedroom, his head bandaged and with no memory of how he got there. Outside his window pine trees and mountain vistas beckon.,Beauâ€™s tale grows even more mysterious when a large, muscular man begins bringing the injured Beau his food. The man says nothingâ€”and wears a wolf mask. When he finally does speak, itâ€™s only to tell Beau to call him â€œBeast.â€,What secrets does the wolf mask hide? What do these two outsiders have in common? And will their odd circumstances bring them to the brink of loveâ€”or tear them apart? The answers lie in Rick R. Reedâ€™s haunting love story that reveals that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
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Beau and the Beast