When Beauty Tamed the Beast

Imagine if the Beast was a sullen Welsh Earl with a disability who may or may not have been inspired by Dr. House! Here, our Beast is Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, a bad-tempered nobleman who does everything in his power to keep others at bay. Linnet Thrynne, having been runed by a cad of a prince, needs to marry quickly. So, she sets her eyes on the supposedly cursed Earl. It's purely a business arrangement. Or at least, it is at first...