num_pages: 290
description: KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways.Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he cant stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuriessince he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland corrupting its people.He follows harbingers of death so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death he encounters Essie a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie doesnt see a monster when she looks at Dresden.Essie is fascinated and delighted by his changing features. Risking his own life he holds back his bees and spares her. What starts out as a simple act of mercy ends up unraveling Dresdens solitary life and Essies tormented one. Their impossible romance might even be powerful enough to unravel a centuries-old curse.
language: English
title: Keeper of the Bees
publisher: Entangled: Teen