Ironskin

By Tina Connolly

Book Overview

Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain--the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a "delicate situation"--a child born during the Great War--Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help. Teaching the unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn't expect to fall for the girl's father, the enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her scars and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio...and come out as beautiful as the fey. Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these things are true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of a new life--and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765330598
• ISBN13: 9780765330598
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Basically a female beast and a male beauty

Basically it is a gender bender where the female is the ugly beast and the male is the beauty. She has to learn to control her ability and teach a little girl to too. It all comes down to a life and death situation for everyone.