num_pages: 391
description: In the beginning was the darkness and in the darkness was a girl and in the girl was a secret...In the domed city of Yuan the blind Princess Isra a Smooth Skin is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her citys vitality. In the desert outside Yuan Gem a mutant beast fights to save his people the Monstrous from starvation. Neither dreams that together they could return balance to both their worlds.Isra wants to help the citys Banished people second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner Gem who has been captured while trying to steal Yuans enchanted roses she begins to care for him and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.As secrets are revealed and Isras sight which vanished during her childhood returned Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.
language: English
title: Of Beast and Beauty
publisher: Delacorte Press