Bookish and the Beast

<b><b>An enchanting YA romance from the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of <i>The Dead Romantics</i>.</b><br><br>A tale as old as time is made new in Ashley Poston's fresh geeky retelling of <i>Beauty and the Beast.</i></b><br>&#160;<br>Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck&#151;on her college application essays in her small town and on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon. Most of all she&#146;s stuck in her grief over her mother&#146;s death. Her only solace was her late mother&#146;s library of rare Starfield novels but even that disappeared when they sold it to pay off hospital bills.<br><br>On the other hand Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as he can remember&#151;with all the privilege and scrutiny that entails. When a tabloid scandal catches up to him he&#146;s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA. At least there&#146;s a library in the house. Too bad he doesn&#146;t read.<br><br>When Vance&#146;s and Rosie&#146;s paths collide sparks do not fly. But as they begrudgingly get to know each other their careful masks come off&#151;and they may just find that there&#146;s more risk in shutting each other out than in opening their hearts.