Help! I'm stuck in a fairy tale-and I'm not even the princess.

One morning, everyone in my small Georgia town wakes up obsessed with Bella, the beautiful bookworm nobody used to notice. Grayson Caron, the guy I've secretly loved since middle school, is proposing marriage to a girl he's never even dated. My sisters are dumping perfectly good boyfriends to chase him. And a crumbling stone castle has appeared in the woods where no castle has any business being.

We're living Beauty and the Beast. Bella is the beauty. There's a very real Beast. And Grayson? He's been cast as the villain.

Everyone knows how fairytales end for the villain.

I'm just Lauren, the plain middle sister. But somehow I'm the only one who can see the story for what it is, which makes me the only one who can drag Grayson off script before the town turns that final page. Saving him would be a lot easier if the tale didn't keep resetting itself, if the pint-sized storyteller pulling our strings weren't so terrifyingly powerful... and if getting this close to Grayson didn't make me forget which parts of my feelings are magic and which are dangerously, embarrassingly real.

I can't rewrite the ending if I fall for the bad guy, but it seems this story has other plans.

Beauty & the Bad Guy is a witty fairy-tale-gone-wrong romance full of time loops, small-town Southern charm, laugh-out-loud banter, and a heroine determined to save the villain instead of the prince. Perfect for fans of fractured fairy tales and sweet paranormal romantic comedy.