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Shifted
“Most of the girls call me Lou and just…titter when they see me. What is a man supposed to make of tittering anyway? And when they all do it at the same time! It’s frightening!”
Apprenticed at his uncle’s printing press and the son of a prosperous horse farmer, Louis Bramms’s only curse is a matchmaking aunt with a penchant for tea parties and a mission to end his bachelorism. In order to escape his aunt’s intentions and the daily swoons of his admirers, Louis finds solace visiting his old friend Eilis, who can tell a hundred stories—stories of faeries and magic, of green men and a missing husband who can charm wolves with his voice. Quaint stories that couldn’t possibly be true. But when a stranger who doesn’t exist visits town and leaves a swathe of tragedy behind him, Louis is left to pick up the pieces and question everything he thought he knew about magic. Memories are unearthed, dangerous spells reawakened, and a monster appears in a decaying estate no one has entered in two centuries. Trapped by his curiosity, Louis finds himself spellbound in the enchanted manor, his fate tied to the beast who does not even remember her name… So begins Shifted, an 18th century telling of the unlikely love between a beauty and a beast.
“Ah, ye know me, Eilis dear. I can’ leave well enough alone. It’s been how many generations since I visited these parts? Nay…They’ve forgotten me again. An’ ye know I’m not keen on bein’ forgot.”
Apprenticed at his uncle’s printing press and the son of a prosperous horse farmer, Louis Bramms’s only curse is a matchmaking aunt with a penchant for tea parties and a mission to end his bachelorism. In order to escape his aunt’s intentions and the daily swoons of his admirers, Louis finds solace visiting his old friend Eilis, who can tell a hundred stories—stories of faeries and magic, of green men and a missing husband who can charm wolves with his voice. Quaint stories that couldn’t possibly be true. But when a stranger who doesn’t exist visits town and leaves a swathe of tragedy behind him, Louis is left to pick up the pieces and question everything he thought he knew about magic. Memories are unearthed, dangerous spells reawakened, and a monster appears in a decaying estate no one has entered in two centuries. Trapped by his curiosity, Louis finds himself spellbound in the enchanted manor, his fate tied to the beast who does not even remember her name… So begins Shifted, an 18th century telling of the unlikely love between a beauty and a beast.
“Ah, ye know me, Eilis dear. I can’ leave well enough alone. It’s been how many generations since I visited these parts? Nay…They’ve forgotten me again. An’ ye know I’m not keen on bein’ forgot.”
361 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 17, 2013
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December 1, 2017
Absolutely riveting! An excellent retelling of a classic tale, with its own unique twists. I highly recommend this book!
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