About the Author
Elizabeth Hoyt is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance. She also writes deliciously fun contemporary romance under the name Julia Harper. Elizabeth lives in central Illinois with three untrained dogs, two angelic but bickering children, and one long-suffering husband.
About the Book
To Beguile a Beast is the third book in Hoyt’s four-book series, The Legend of the Four Soldiers. Horribly scarred by torture, Sir Alistair Munroe lives by himself in a falling-down Scottish castle…until the night a beauty shows up on his doorstep claiming to be his new housekeeper. RT Book Reviews magazine called To Beguile a Beast “a magical love story that reads like a mystical fable and a very real and highly passionate romance” To Beguile a Beast is preceded by To Taste Temptation and To Seduce a Sinner and is followed by To Desire a Devil.
1. Sir Alistair is scarred both in body and in mind. What do Alistair’s scars represent—to himself? To Helen? To his sister, Sophia?
2. At the beginning of the book Helen is running from an emotionally abusive lover and overwhelmed by the task of cleaning the castle. How does she change by the end of the book?
3. What part does Lady Grey, Sir Alistair’s Deerhound, play in the book? How did you feel about her death? Do you think it was important to the book?
4. Fathers and father figures are a thematic element in To Beguile a Beast. Who are all the fathers in the book and what roles do they play in the story?
5. Fly fishing at the crack of dawn—a romantic outing or a horrible mistake?
6. In the first two books in The Legend of the Four Soldiers series the heroes were almost obsessed with finding the man who betrayed them at Spinner’s Falls. Is Alistair less concerned with the discovering the traitor than the other heroes? If so, why?
7. What are the parallels between the Truth Teller fairy tale and the main story? Differences?
8. What does the future represent to Alistair? To Helen?
9. What did you think of the relationship between Alistair and his sister Sophia?
10. What role do badgers play in the book?