Monstrous Beauty

By Elizabeth Fama

Book Overview

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra's help, Hester investigates her family's strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean - but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374373663
• ISBN13: 9780374373665
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary