"For your vanity, your cruelty, and your cold, unfeeling heart, a curse I leave upon you..." The stunning Beatrice Cavanaugh is considered American royalty. She has everything except the ability to love. Cursed on her eighteenth birthday, she becomes more beastly than ever, having a newfound craving for raw meat, and an undeniable yearning for the night. Bitterness is her only companion.After accusing a maid of stealing, a disgustingly kind and exquisitely handsome man named Adam shows up, asking Beatrice to drop the charges against his mother.Infuriated by his goodness, Beatrice vows to break him.Destroy him.Make him suffer.So she agrees.On one condition: Adam must take his mother's place as her servant in the mansion.Because Beatrice won't stop until he's more beastly than she is.