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description: When Elizabeth Ashton escapes her damaging city life and finds herself in the remote town of Hemlock Veils Oregon she is smitten by its quaint mystery; but the surrounding forest holds an enchantment she didnt think existed and worse a most terrifying monster. The town claims it vicious and evil but Elizabeth suspects something is amiss. Even with its enormous hairy frame gruesome claws and knifelike teeth the monsters eyes speak to her: wolf-like and ringed with gold yet holding an awareness that can only be human. Thats when Elizabeth knows she is the only one who can see the struggling soul trapped inside the soul to which she is moved.Secretly Elizabeth befriends the beast at night discovering theres more to his story and that the rising of the sun transforms him into a human more complex than his beastly self. Elizabeth eventually learns that his curse is unlike any other and that a single murderous act is all that stands between him and his freedom. Though love is not enough to break his curse it may be the only means by which the unimaginable can be done: sacrifice a beauty for the beast.
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title: Hemlock Veils
publisher: Swoon Romance