About the book: year / Free the Beauty...For ten years, Cora Walker dreamed of returning to the Blackwood estate...to her childhood friend Gideon Blake. But soon the dream of returning home turns into a nightmare, and the adult, dangerous, sexy Gideon is not at all like the boy Cora loved. Free the beast... Cursed by the monster that killed his entire family, Gideon sacrificed his heart to protect Cora from his inner beast. But when she returned, the curse chained her to him. Now Gideon has only two options: convince Cora to marry him despite the fact that he deprived her of her freedom... or die saving the beauty from the beast.