Sixteen-year-old Belle Montague's family history is haunting her. Literally.

With sudden blood on her hands, she must leave behind everything she knows to live with her ultra-rich and mysterious aunt in the most elite city in the country, Elmridge. She goes from homeschool to glitz-and-glam high school where she is pitted against:.

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the Princess Posse, a group of Queen B-versions of fairy tale royalty. .

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a new teacher, Dr. Helsing, who wants to know a little too much about the past she's running from.

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. the pop-star heartthrob of the school who's lusting after her.

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. and Liam Rawlins, her fantasy-guy-come-true known as Beast on the football team and an outcast who everyone thinks murdered his parents.

Belle soon learns of the links between the murders and her own supernatural family history, and resolves to get close to Liam to unlock the answers to her nightmarish past. Can she solve the mysteries in time, juggle a confusing social life, snag her first kiss, and not fall in love with the Beast, all before the nightmare shows up on her front steps?.