Cover of Beastly (Beastly, #1)

Beastly

Alex Flinn

Beastly #1

young adult romance(179k)

Locked away with a cursed beast, Lindy records in her diary as fear slowly turns to love.

Content Warnings
captivity

Description

See the #1 New York Times bestselling story Beastly through Lindy's eyes! This is her diary, kept while living in captivity with the beast. Lindy's Diary captures all the romance and edgy mystery of the original! Diary, I am locked away . . . with no one to confide in but you . . . and him. His fur, those claws—they caught me off guard at first, but now I'm noticing something else about him—something deeper. It's the look in his eye. It tells me he's got a secret to keep. That's okay—I've got one, too. I think I'm falling in love with him. . . . Lindy

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