Stalking Shadows by Cyla Panin5/11/2023 “Dark and mesmerizing, Stalking Shadows is a story with both heart and bite. Readers will adore the gorgeously spooky atmosphere in this story of sisters learning how far they will go to keep each other safe in a world of cursed beasts and fierce magic.” “A thrilling twist on the Beauty and the Beast fairytale, which redefines what makes someone monstrous. But once she gets into the mansion, she discovers dark secrets hidden away-secrets of the curse, of Lord Sebastien. Marie knows the only place she'll find the cure is in the mansion where Ama was cursed in the first place, home of Lord Sebastien LaClaire. And if she can't control her, she'll have to cure her. But when a young boy turns up dead one morning, Marie is forced to acknowledge she might be losing control of Ama. Marking Ama's victims controls the damage to keep suspicion at bay. Marie laces the perfume delicately-not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she's trained her sister to respond to. But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living in the level of freedom afforded only to spinster aunts. Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister's curse and stop the killing in her small French town
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