Belle doesn’t need saving. She needs insurance. Living out of her van and working nonstop to keep her father in memory care, she’s used to surviving alone. Until a brutal roller derby injury leaves her desperate and her wealthy, intensely private client makes an outrageous offer.

A marriage. In name only.

Raphael Renault is rumored to be a beast. He is reclusive, rigid, and more comfortable behind locked doors than at the dinner table. His house feels less like a home and more like a castle built to keep the world out.

But Belle has never been afraid of monsters.

She brings warmth into his silent kitchen. Laughter into rooms long untouched. And when she opens the one door that was meant to stay closed, she uncovers the grief he’s been hiding for years.

As a storm gathers and the past threatens everything they’ve built, Belle must decide if loving the Beast means losing herself… or finally choosing a partnership where power is shared and hearts are unguarded.

Beast Mode is a Beauty and the Beast–inspired, marriage-of-convenience romance about grief, vulnerability, found family, and the courage to love without shrinking. Spicy, tender, and fiercely heart-forward.