What makes a girl beastly? Is having too much ambition? Being too loud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something - anything - too badly? Try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her - the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, Arabella is cursed ... trapping her, her ladies of the court and everyone she cares about in her castle. The only way to break it, she believes, is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love. When handsome thief Beau becomes trapped inside the castle, he finds himself drawn like a moth to a flame to the mysterious Arabella. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts and realize that the cruellest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves. Beauty meets female fury in this epic retelling of a classic love story.
