title: Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna (A Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery)
author:  Maia Chance 
description: <b>Praise for <i>Snow White Red-Handed</i></b><br /> <br /> Offering a clever twist on the tales of the Brothers Grimm, this debut historical cozy introduces an attractive, spunky heroineand an entertaining, well-constructed plot that will satisfy fans of folklore and fairy tales.<i>Library Journal</i> (starred review)<br /> <br /> Deliciously Gothic, intriguingly different, this story plunges us into the world of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, where the greed and evil are all too real, and everyone has something to hide.Rhys Bowen, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author <br /> <br /> [Chances] lively debut, the first in a new cozy serieswill whet the readers appetite for Ophelia and Prues next misadventure.<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /> <i></i><br /> Maia Chance has woven a magical tale of murder, mystery and mayhem.MyShelf.com
zlib_text: **THE BEAUTY**
  
  Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci would defy death itself to rescue
  her imprisoned brother. Though fear formed a fist around her heart, she’d even
  brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion - the menacing palazzo of
  legendary, lethal Don Nicolai DeMarco…
  
   **THE BEAST**
  
  Rumor said the powerful don could command the
  
  heavens, that the beast below did his bidding… and that he was doomed to
  destroy the woman he took as his wife. It was whispered he was not wholly
  human
  
  \- as untamed as his tawny mane and slashing amber eyes.
  
   **THE BARGAIN**
  
  But Isabella met a man whose growl was velvet,
  
  purring heat, whose eyes held dark, all-consuming desire. And when the don
  commanded her to
  
  become his bride, she went willingly into his muscled arms, praying she’d save
  his tortured soul… not sacrifice her life…
  
   **Publishers Weekly**
  
  Best known for her vampire romances (Dark
  
  Guardian, etc.), Feehan adds a gothic twist to a classic fairy tale in this
  eerie and engros