Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones—and in her blood.

When Yeva's father loses his fortune, she and her sisters are forced from their comfortable home among the aristocracy back to the rugged outskirts of town. Secretly, Yeva is relieved. In the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman.

But her father's misfortune may have cost him his mind. When he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he'd been obsessively tracking before his disappearance. The Beast.

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures she's only heard about in fairy tales. A world that could bring her ruin... or salvation.

Who will survive—the Beauty, or the Beast?