• Publication Season/Year: Winter 2009
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Release Date: December 1, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 0316042676
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal a power, and a curse, that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret can change everything.

About the Author

Margaret earned a BA in English from Amherst College, an MA in English from Stanford, and completed coursework for a PhD in American Studies from Yale. Margaret taught Film at Yale and Romantic Poetry at Stanford as a grad student. She also studied Creative Writing with George MacBeth at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Margaret lives in Santa Monica, CA with her husband, three daughters, and two bad beagles, Kirby and Zelda. She has written screenplays for Nickelodeon Movies and Clasky-Csupo Productions, and spent ten years writing and designing videogames like Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, and Pirates of the Caribbean, before the publication of her first novel, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES.  Read more about how to book or contact Margaret Stohl.

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