OF BEAST AND BEAUTY cover reveal
As of this morning, the cover is up on Barnes and Noble's website, so I assume it is now permissible for me to share the beautiful cover for OF BEAST AND BEAUTY, my twisted retelling of Beauty and the Beast, out July 23rd, 2013.
The Official Blurb (don't read the stuff on the sale websites, I don't know how they came into possession of a pre-final version of the blurb, but they did and I do not care for it):
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 city's 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 city's 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 Yuan's enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra's 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.
The Tease:
It’s pointless. Hopeless. Even if she weren’t afraid of me, at the core, we’ll always be enemies. She rules a wicked, selfish city, and my tribe suffers for her peoples’ comfort. She’s a queen; I’m her prisoner. I resent her and she fears me and there are times when I fear her, too. I am her monster, and she is mine. But right now none of it matters.
The Preorder Info:
Preorder now at Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/of-beast-and-beauty-stacey-jay/1113557132?ean=9780385743204
Amazon, Indiebound.org, or wherever you like to order books.
The First Chance to Win an ARC:
Post a review of ROMEO REDEEMED on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.com between now and January 1st and email the link to stacey.jay.ya at gmail dot com by January 1st for one chance to win. Preorder OF BEAST AND BEAUTY and email your receipt to the same email address for 2 chances to win. I will draw and announce the winner on January 2nd, 2013.
Hope you all are hanging in there and hugging the ones you love extra tight this week,
Stacey