Beauty & The Beast

Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, but has several variations throughout Europe.

Basic Elements
A father lives with his beloved, kind daughter, Beauty.

The merchant loses his fortune/or is already poor.

The merchant is separated from his daughter and encounters a beast from whom his daughter must save him from.

Beauty gives herself up to protect her father from the Beast.

The beast cares for her. But she misses home and so is allowed to return to her family.

When she comes back to the beast he is dying. She saves him with her love and he becomes human. They live happily ever after.

Tales of Evermagic
Beauty and the Beast is briefly mentioned in The Masked Slipper as a fairy tale that is rarely lived out to happily ever after.

The fourth book of Evermagic, The Monster & The Beast, is a retelling of Beauty & The Beast using two sets of beauties and beasts.

The Monster & The Beast
Hunter and Serren end up trapped in an enchanted forest where they meet two separate persons. Hunter is trapped at the farmhouse of a manor within the forest with a lioness and other talking animals.

Serren finds herself secluded with a monster and invisible servants that only she can see. But when Hunter and Serren try to save the creatures they have come to love, it is the monster who fails to save his beauty, who then in return is made a beast.

Serren and Ber's story continues in The Blue Siren, Book 7 of Evermagic.