A tale as old as time is made new in Ashley Poston's fresh, geeky retelling of Beauty and the Beastnow with a bonus Starfield story! Rosie Thorne is feeling stuckon her college application essays, in her small town, and on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon. Most of all, shes stuck in her grief over her mothers death. Her only solace was her late mothers library of rare Starfield novels, but even that disappeared when they sold it to pay off hospital bills.On the other hand, Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as he can rememberwith all the privilege and scrutiny that entails. When a tabloid scandal catches up to him, hes forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA. At least theres a library in the house. Too bad he doesnt read.When Vances and Rosies paths collide, sparks do not fly. But as they begrudgingly get to know each other, their careful masks come offand they may just find that theres more risk in shutting each other out than in opening their hearts.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Once Upon a Con Series .

This book is aimed at children at US 9th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.

There are 304 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2021 by Quirk Books .

Ashley Poston is the author of the YA novels The Sound of Us and We Own the Night, both published by Bloomsbury Spark.