The Beast's Heart: A Novel of Beauty and the Beast

By Leife Shallcross

Book Overview

A luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France--and told from the point of view of the Beast himself.

I am neither monster nor man--yet I am both. I am the Beast.

He is a broken, wild thing, his heart's nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined ch teau with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company--until a weary traveler disturbs his isolation.

Bewitched by the man's dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the ch teau. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her father's life for her own and agrees to remain with the Beast for a year. But even as their time together weaves its own spell, the Beast finds winning Isabeau's love is only the first impossible step in breaking free from the curse....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440001773
• ISBN13: 9780440001775
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12