Roses: The Tales Trilogy, Book 1

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Age range 12 & up She bears no name. Her silvery appearance is freakish to the numerous inhabitants of Sago, the cosmopolitan capital of Pevorocco in the Western Realm. With her mother vanishing at the instance of her birth, she is sent to live with the cruel, rich Ma Dane, where she is punished daily for something, though she knows not what. Tauntingly named Beauty, she flees Sago in a violent uprising that sets out to massacre all Magics and journeys to the farthest point of the country. But Beauty cannot hide in the grassy Hillands forever. Before long, the State officials find her and threaten to take her back to war-torn Sago where death surely awaits. In a midnight blizzard she escapes them, running into a deep, enchanted forest to a great and terrible beast who will bargain for her life. But can Beauty accept Beast? Eternity is a long time.

Rose Mannering is an English writer and international author of picture books and young adult fiction. Although diagnosed with dyslexia at just eight years old, Mannering has been writing as long as she can remember. She signed with the literary agency Creative Authors when she was eighteen and secured her first UK publishing deal when she was nineteen. Mannering is currently studying English at the Royal Holloway, University of London, and resides in Kent, England.