A gender-swapped Beauty & the Beast about a chaotic princess and a ridiculously handsome knight, set in a world of magic, witches, and indifferent fairies. Kira, Princess Royal of the Known Kingdoms, has a big, particularly hairy secret. That terrifying thing running through the woods around Corlea Palace? That's her. And she plans to keep it up, using the magic of an old cloak to be the mythical Beast of Barlow. It's all going just fine until she receives an urgent request from her cousin Bertie to help him figure out why a group of orphans is turning into little copies of the Beast whenever they go outside. Kira is paired with Sir Robert, perhaps the most infuriatingly beautiful (and far too preceptive) knight on the continent, to help solve the mystery before a planned hunt for the Beast puts them in even more danger. All she has to do is keep her secrets close and Robert closer. Easy. Until she wakes up transformed into the very Beast she was pretending to be.
