Life isn’t always just good and evil, like stories depict. For Isabelle Dupont, scarred and timid, fiction is her only escape. After living a sheltered life, hidden from society, she’s thrown into a world only found in her books—the mafia. Dragged in with a lie and trapped by the capo, Isabelle learns there’s more to her life than what she was led to believe.
Rafael Corsetti finds himself wanting to protect the woman with strange scars and an even stranger history. She could be the key to ensuring his family’s safety and finding their enemy. Even as facts unfold and Isabelle’s hatred for him grows, Rafael wants her for himself. In the end, beauty doesn’t always want the beast.
The Beauty in Scars is a bodyguard mafia romance between the mafia capo and the bookishwoman he's meant to protect Expect a spicy Beauty and the Beast inspired romance packed full of secrets and an overprotective male character amidst the Montreal mafia. The Beauty in Scars has content some readers may find triggering. It is the third book in Fractured Ever Afters, a series of interconnected standalones that are best read in order.
USA Today Bestselling author M.L. Philpitt writes both dark romance and paranormal romance. When she’s not writing made-up realities, she’s reading them. She lives in Canada with her four pets and survives life with coffee and an obsession with fictional characters, especially the morally grey kind. By day, she masks as a therapist, and is still waiting for her Hogwarts letter so she can be sorted into her Ravenclaw house.