She attended Syracuse University, earning degrees in English literature and Industrial design. Her books are known for their unusual subject matter, including alcoholism, death, and domestic abuse. She has also published romantic fantasy novels as M.J. Winner of numerous writing awards, including two RITAs, three Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, and the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from Romance Writers of America, she has had numerous books listed among Library Journal's and Booklist's top romances of the year.Mary Jo Putney (born in New York) is a best-selling American author of over twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels.

' was an amazing story!'Ī New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USAToday bestselling author, Mary Jo Putney's novels are known for psychological depth and intensity and include historical and contemporary romance, fantasy, and young adult fantasy.

It pulls in everything we hope for in a love story!'

It is a Beauty and the Beast sort of tale. 'When I was a teen, I read this and fell in love with The Black Beast Of Belleterre.'The Black Beast of Belleterre the perfect Beauty and the Beast retelling with every detail wonderfully re-envisioned.'.*This seasonal stand-alone Regency novella is also published in the author's Christmas Revels collection. Will he allow her to love him before it's too late? Perhaps the magic of Christmas can bring them together. Though she never sees her husband's face, she is drawn to his kindness and generosity, but he is determined to push her away.

Of course it will be a marriage in name only, because what woman could want him?Ī talented artist, Ariel is cursed by her beauty and vulnerability. When he learns that a neighboring girl, the exquisite young Ariel Hawthorne, is about to be sold into marriage with a revolting lecher, he offers her the only protection he can: his name. James Markland, Lord Falconer, knows that he is ugly, very ugly, and he lives a life of seclusion, wearing a heavily cowled mantle to conceal his face from the world. The Beauty and the Beast: a haunted and hidden lord, a desperate young beauty, and a marriage of convenience between two people who yearn for more.

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