New York Occasions bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast tale for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won’t soon have the ability to forget.

Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones-and in her blood. In the end, her father may be the just hunter who’s ever come close to finding its secrets. Therefore when her dad loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfy house among the about Hunted aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is certainly secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there is no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas . or even to post to marrying a rich gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may possess cost him his mind, so when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva pieces her sights using one victim: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking right before his disappearance. The Beast.

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his personal territory-a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical animals that Yeva’s only found out about in fairy stories. A world that may bring her wreck, or salvation. Who will survive: the wonder, or the Beast?