EAN: 9780063244092

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Enchanting. Molly Greeley has pulled off a piece of magic to tell a dazzling love story about the outcast's ache to be cared for and belong. This book broke my heart and put it back together again.--Allison Epstein author of A Tip for the Hangman A mesmerizing novel set in the French royal court of Catherine de' Medici during the Renaissance which recreates the touching and surprising true story behind the Beauty and the Beast legend from the acclaimed author of The Clergyman's Wife and The Heiress. 1547: Pedro Gonzales a young boy living on the island of Tenerife understands that he is different from the other children in his village. He is mercilessly ridiculed for the hair covering his body from head to toe. When he is kidnapped off the beach near his home he finds himself delivered by a slave broker into the dangerous and glamorous world of France's royal court. There ?Monsieur Sauvage ? as he is known learns French literature and sword fighting becoming an attendant to the French King Henri II and a particular favorite of his queen the formidable Catherine de' Medici. Queen Catherine considers herself a collector of unusual people and is fascinated by Pedro...and determined to find him a bride. Catherine Raffelin is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl whose merchant father has fallen on hard times and offers up his daughter to Queen Catherine. The queen will pay his debts and his daughter will marry Monsieur Sauvage. Catherine meets Pedro for the first time on their wedding day. Barely recovered from the shock of her father's betrayal she soon finds herself christened ?Madame Sauvage? by the royal courtiers and must learn to navigate this strange new world and the unusual man who is now her husband. Gorgeously written heartbreaking and hopeful Marvelous is the portrait of a marriage the story of a remarkable resilient family and an unforgettable reimaging of one of the world's most beloved fairy tales.

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