Monstrous Beauty

By Elizabeth Fama

Book Overview

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost 140 years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra's help, Hester investigates her family's strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean--but, in Elizabeth Fama's Monstrous Beauty, powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250034256
• ISBN13: 9781250034250
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Square Fish
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Beautifully tragic in all the best ways

A dark tragic past and mysterious strangers; this book is for anyone who loves fantasy all tied up in mystery and suspense!