Beauty knows the Beasts forest in her bonesand in her blood. Though she grew up with the citys highest aristocrats, far from her fathers old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter whos ever come close to discovering them.

So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters 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.

Deaf to her sisters protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territorya cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of 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?