Beautiful Creatures is the first installment of the four-book series called The Caster Chronicles written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was published in December of 2009 by the Little, Brown book group. It has been considered an international best seller novel and has been on the New York Times bestseller list. It was later even up to become a movie. The movie version of the novel was released in February, 2013, under the same title, Beautiful Creatures.
Synopsis:
There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. Thereave.
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is 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 could change everything.
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