Lost beauty

An intense book, with a moving story that will stay in your heart for a long time.

Ambrose Young is gorgeous—tall and muscular, with shoulder-length hair and piercing eyes. The kind of handsome who could grace the cover of a romance novel, and Fern Taylor would know, having devoured such books since she was thirteen. But because he was so handsome, Fern never imagined she could have Ambrose... until everything in his life changed.

Lost Beauty is the story of a small town where five young men go to war and only one returns. It's a story about loss—collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity, but also incalculable gains. It's a tale of a girl's unwavering love for a wounded warrior.

This is a profound and moving book about friendship that overcomes sadness, about heroism that defies common definitions, and a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast that makes us discover that there is both beauty and ferocity in all of us.