Welcome to another episode of Read Clean YA with C.J., featuring debut author Abigail O'Bryan discussing her dark YA reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, Iron Rose.

No Kiss Can Break This Curse.

There is no future for Lydia Brightwood.The Crimson Lord, a tyrant bent on destroying Lydia's country, made sure of that. Her only hope of a different life is to find the one person who could unite her country: a royal heir. There's just one problem... They're all dead.The Beast's humanity is slipping away. Shut away from the world by a horrible secret, Adam watches the destruction of his homeland from the ruins of a fortress all the while holding the devastating truth in his chest: It's his fault.Adam and Lydia's paths cross in the ruins of the north where they must find a way to conquer the curse before everything they love collapses...but being truly human has its price.

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