New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beautyand the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers wont soon be able to forget.Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bonesand in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter whos 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, theres no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessasor to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman.But Yevas fathers misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature hed been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. The Beast.Deaf to her sisters protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territorya cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yevas only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 8th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 13 years.

There are 400 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 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Meagan Spooner was born in Washington, D. C. , where she grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day. She has travelled all over the world to places like Egypt, Greece, Antarctica, the Galapagos, Chile, the Arctic Circle and Australia, and graduated with a degree in playwriting from Hamilton College in New York. When she's not writing about the end of the world, she's writing about its beginning, indulging a lifelong obsession with mythology and fairy tales.