Keeper of the bees
Title
:
Keeper of the bees
Personal Author EPSB
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Meg. Kassel
Summary
:
Dresden is cursed. He houses a hive of bees in his chest, which he can't stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. He has been this way for centuries--since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows a troupe of harbingers of death to a Midwest town marked for impending disaster. There, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight, but Essie doesn't see a monster when she looks at Dresden, prompting him to hold back his bees and spare her. What starts out as a simple act of mercy ends up unraveling Dresden's solitary life and Essie's tormented one. An impossible romance blooms, even as Essie is pulled into a murder investigation and Dresden embarks on a desperate quest to unravel a centuries-old curse.
Year Published
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2018-2019
Physical Description
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290 pages ; 21 cm
Subject
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Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Magic -- Fiction.
Paranormal fiction
Friendship -- Fiction.
Bees -- Fiction.
Romance fiction
Genre
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Fantasy fiction.
Summary
:
Dresden is cursed. He houses a hive of bees in his chest, which he can't stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. He has been this way for centuries--since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows a troupe of harbingers of death to a Midwest town marked for impending disaster. There, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight, but Essie doesn't see a monster when she looks at Dresden, prompting him to hold back his bees and spare her. What starts out as a simple act of mercy ends up unraveling Dresden's solitary life and Essie's tormented one. An impossible romance blooms, even as Essie is pulled into a murder investigation and Dresden embarks on a desperate quest to unravel a centuries-old curse.
ISBN
:
9781640637344
Publisher
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Fort Collins, Colorado : Entangled Teen, 2019.
©2018.
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Kate Chegwin | FIC KAS BK 2 | Book | 30574000610871 | Fiction |