This is a work of fiction. All names, places, and characters are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, places, or events is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Ashley Poston

All rights reserved. Except as authorized under U.S. copyright law, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Poston, Ashley, author.

Bookish and the beast : a novel / by Ashley Poston.

Summary: In this adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, the teenaged star of a popular science fiction movie franchise hides out in a small town, following a tabloid scandal, and meets the bookish Rosie Thorne who is still grieving over her mother’s death.

CYAC: Celebrities--Fiction. | Grief--Fiction. | Love--Fiction.

LCC PZ7.1.P667 Bo 2020 DDC [Fic]--dc23

ISBN 9781683691938

Ebook ISBN 9781683691945

Cover illustration by Peter Greenwood

Cover design by Elissa Flanigan

Production management by John J. McGurk

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