BEAST MODE
Mary Warren
Release Date: May 28
Buy Link:
https://a.co/d/00WNAKQq
Available in KU
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🥀Fairytale retelling - Beauty & The Beast
🛼Curvy Heroine
🥀Marriage of Convenience
🛼He Falls First
🥀Obsessed Billionaire
🛼Touch-Starved Hero
🥀Hyper-Independent Heroine
🛼Hurt/Comfort
🥀Forced Proximity
🛼Found Family
Mary Warren
Release Date: May 28
Buy Link:
https://a.co/d/00WNAKQq
Available in KU
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🥀Fairytale retelling - Beauty & The Beast
🛼Curvy Heroine
🥀Marriage of Convenience
🛼He Falls First
🥀Obsessed Billionaire
🛼Touch-Starved Hero
🥀Hyper-Independent Heroine
🛼Hurt/Comfort
🥀Forced Proximity
🛼Found Family
Blurb
Belle doesn’t need saving. She needs insurance. Living out of her van and working nonstop to keep her father in memory care, she’s used to surviving alone. Until a brutal roller derby injury leaves her desperate and her wealthy, intensely private client makes an outrageous offer.
A marriage. In name only.
Raphael Renault is rumored to be a beast. He is reclusive, rigid, and more comfortable behind locked doors than at the dinner table. His house feels less like a home and more like a castle built to keep the world out.
But Belle has never been afraid of monsters.
She brings warmth into his silent kitchen. Laughter into rooms long untouched. And when she opens the one door that was meant to stay closed, she uncovers the grief he’s been hiding for years.
As a storm gathers and the past threatens everything they’ve built, Belle must decide if loving the Beast means losing herself… or finally choosing a partnership where power is shared and hearts are unguarded.
Beast Mode is a Beauty and the Beast–inspired, marriage-of-convenience romance about grief, vulnerability, found family, and the courage to love without shrinking. Spicy, tender, and fiercely heart-forward.
Belle doesn’t need saving. She needs insurance. Living out of her van and working nonstop to keep her father in memory care, she’s used to surviving alone. Until a brutal roller derby injury leaves her desperate and her wealthy, intensely private client makes an outrageous offer.
A marriage. In name only.
Raphael Renault is rumored to be a beast. He is reclusive, rigid, and more comfortable behind locked doors than at the dinner table. His house feels less like a home and more like a castle built to keep the world out.
But Belle has never been afraid of monsters.
She brings warmth into his silent kitchen. Laughter into rooms long untouched. And when she opens the one door that was meant to stay closed, she uncovers the grief he’s been hiding for years.
As a storm gathers and the past threatens everything they’ve built, Belle must decide if loving the Beast means losing herself… or finally choosing a partnership where power is shared and hearts are unguarded.
Beast Mode is a Beauty and the Beast–inspired, marriage-of-convenience romance about grief, vulnerability, found family, and the courage to love without shrinking. Spicy, tender, and fiercely heart-forward.
MY REVIEW
Belle works multiple jobs just to make ends meet and pay for her father's care. She doesn't like to rely on anyone but herself, doesn't like to ask for help, not wanting to be seen as a charity case. Then she meets a Beast, a grumpy guy short on social skills, and she sees past his controlled exterior. She shouldn't say yes to his marriage of convenience proposal, but it could be the answer to all her needs, ALL of them.
Raphael doesn't know why he's so drawn to his new employee. All he knows is he can't get her off his mind. So proposing a marriage of convenience so she can have insurance and afford her father's memory care is just the thing to get her to stay, at least for awhile. What she doesn't realize is that he has no intention of letting her go once they're married. She's it for him, and wants to be it for her.
Now this is the way you do a retelling! Belle is strong, independent and confident, such a contrast to socially awkward, controlled Raphael who's so taken with her from their first meeting. Opposites attract, from different worlds, these two really don't make a good couple on paper, but they are actually perfect for each other. Their physical connection is intense, only second to their emotional connection, which deepens with every day they spend falling in love. She has a wonderful group of friends and fellow derby girls, who offer up support even if she's loathe to ask for anything, and Raphael has his own wonderful circle. I love this story, and can't wait to read more of the Grimm Reapers falling in love.
Meet Mary Warren
Mary Warren is an indie romance author known for writing inclusive, body-positive love stories that blend warmth, humor, and heat. Her books feature plus-size heroines, emotionally soft heroes, and relationships built on mutual respect, banter, and deep emotional connection.
Writing across contemporary, paranormal, and fantasy romance, she creates stories where characters are seen, healed, and deeply loved. She is also the founder of Fat Girls in Fiction, a community dedicated to expanding representation and celebrating joyful, affirming romance for every body.
Connect with Mary Warren
https://www.instagram.com/fatgirlsinfiction/
Mary Warren is an indie romance author known for writing inclusive, body-positive love stories that blend warmth, humor, and heat. Her books feature plus-size heroines, emotionally soft heroes, and relationships built on mutual respect, banter, and deep emotional connection.
Writing across contemporary, paranormal, and fantasy romance, she creates stories where characters are seen, healed, and deeply loved. She is also the founder of Fat Girls in Fiction, a community dedicated to expanding representation and celebrating joyful, affirming romance for every body.
Connect with Mary Warren
https://www.instagram.com/fatgirlsinfiction/
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