Playboy. Socialite. Frivolous and Wicked.Alexander Caldwell needs to settle down.Hence the giant white house he just bought in the suburbs.The one that backs up to the house filled with three single women living in it.They all have their sights set on him...but it's her he can't get out of his head.Alexander has absolutely no place getting involved with a teenage girl with the world in her eyes.But he does.Tortured. Lonely. Desperate to run.Sunny Thorn needs to get out of her mother's house.To do that, she needs money.Hence taking the job painting a mural in Alexander Caldwell's pool house.The man whose eyes follow her. The man with the sculpted jaw and commanding presence. The man who is way too old for her.When Sunny has the chance to get out of Pineridge and start a future of her own, he should let her go.But he doesn't.Beautiful Monster is a standalone age-gap forbidden romance from the author of the Wicked Hearts series.