New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling BeautyΒ and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers wonβt soon be able to forget.
Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bonesβand in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter whoβs ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, thereβs no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas . . . or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yevaβs fatherβs misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature heβd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. The Beast.
Deaf to her sistersβ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territoryβa cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yevaβs only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, or an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York State with a degree in playwriting. Sheβs traveled all over the world, to places such as Egypt, Australia, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the GalΓ‘pagos Islands, and thereβs a bit of every trip in every story she writes. She currently lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and thereβs no telling how long sheβll stay there. Sheβs the author of Hunted and Sherwood and the coauthor of the award-winning Starbound Trilogy (These Broken Stars, This Shattered World, Their Fractured Light) and the Skylark Trilogy (Skylark, Shadowlark, Lark Ascending). In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads. meaganspooner.com