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Beauty X Beast


A GameLit & LitRPG Novel


Book 3 of the Damsels of Distress Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Beauty and the Beast Retelling,
  • Romantic Fantasy,
  • War Fantasy
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  • GameLit with system-assigned classes that upend character dreams
  • High-stakes ultimatums forcing impossible choices
  • Reluctant alliances with outcast war machines
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Metal hearts and war machines. Fight for freedom… or surrender to fate.

Danielle Tinkersdottir, the shining star of Frontière, has always dreamed of earning a system-granted class that reflects her hard work as a tinkerer alongside her father. Her heart is set on becoming a magic engineer, but on her eighteenth birthday the System crushes the bookish heroine's hopes, granting her the alluring power of an Enchantress.

Before she can adjust to this cruel twist, Baron Gasteel Leiter, a relentless noble tasked with recruiting for the kingdom's war effort, demands Danielle's hand in marriage. When she refuses, Gasteel brands her father a traitor, offering the defiant bride three grim choices: marry him, let her father die, or achieve the impossible—convince the System-Forsaken Battle Beast, the cursed Comte, to return to the war.

Danielle chooses the impossible. Journeying into the Comte's lair, she faces a monstrous war criminal abandoned by the crown. Though her skills lie in beauty, her wit and determination will decide the continent's fate: the new Enchantress must either heal the broken hero of the kingdom, or awaken the sleeping monster and force him to fight for her future.

Only one thing can save the world from a brutal war: a beauty who sees beyond the beast.

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