Beast

A Bad Boy Marine Romance

By: Alana Albertson

Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Sonja Field

Grady Williams is a national treasure, the youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, America's scarred superhero. With tattooed arms sculpted from carrying M-16s, this bad boy has girls begging from sea to shining sea to get a piece of his action.

When my father squanders away my college fund, I make a deal with this dirty-talking devil dog - I will pretend to be Grady's girlfriend for the Marine Corps Ball, and my dad will write Grady's war memoir.

Grady is fearless. Hell, this badass jumped on a grenade to save his fellow Marines! As much as I crave him, I refuse to allow myself to become addicted to a dangerous man who will detonate my heart.

Isabella Cuesta is an angel who can see beyond my mangled skin, a pawn used to repay her father's debt, a woman who makes me feel like a man instead of a monster.

But I no longer believe in fairy tales.

She's mine until our contract ends. I'll take her hard and rough, listen to all her hopes and fears, lay down my life to protect her.

This beauty will never let herself love a dangerous man like me - a man who has killed, a man who runs towards gunfire, a man who never backs down from a fight.

But without her love, I'm not a man - I'll remain forever a beast.

Publisher's note: This is a full-length, standalone novel. HEA. No cliffhanger. No cheating.

©2016 Alana Albertson (P)2016 Alana Albertson

Beautiful Retelling

It was such a beautiful story. I hope that it gets turned into a film.

Great Love Story

This was an awesome listen. I loved the narrators, they made it great for me.

So sweet

It's rare that you get this kind of duel narration in an audiobook and I love it! I don't usually read books with any kind of military theme but this was very much worth the read.

Entertaining

This audiobook is about a disfigured wounded veteran Marine who meets a beautiful dancing reality star at a party. He's pretty jaded, thinking no woman could want him for himself and she's just wanting a real live relationship. It's kind of a beauty and the beast take-off. Overall, it was good. The only thing that bothered me was sometimes the male narrator seemed a little monotone.

Military Beast Finds His Dance Reality TV Beauty

This is a stand-alone book. It is narrated in a dual point of view by Aaron Sherlock and Sonja Field, who both do an excellent job bringing the characters to life.

Grady is a war hero. He left the Middle East after using his body to shield his Marine unit from an explosive. He has had extensive surgery, skin grafts and physical therapy. He also suffers from PTSD. He feels like a beast and doesn't like to spend time in public because of other's reactions to him and his triggers.

Isa was a dancer. She danced professionally with a partner and later on a TV reality show partnered with someone the show assigned her for the season. After a death in her family, she couldn't cope and left that lifestyle behind.

Isa goes with a friend to a super hero costume party for Halloween. Grady hears the party near his home and covers himself in green make-up as The Hulk so he can blend in. They meet at the party and Grady has a trigger on his PTSD. Isa is going to university majoring in psychology. She tries to help him and at least sees him home. They part ways but think of each other.

Isa's father is a ghost writer who is out of money and has no prospects in a new book deal, so he steals her savings from her that was meant to pay her next semester bills. She talks to Grady about letting her Dad tell his story so she can get her money for classes and so Grady can get his story out the way he wants it told. He agrees to help her if she will be his date for the upcoming Marine Ball where he is a guest speaker in front of VIP's and the U.S. President. As they get to know each other, real feelings get involved and each has issues to work through to be honest with the other.