KELSEY JOSEPHSON
A young woman with ether-poisoning that grants unnatural strength is sold to a traveling circus, where a chance encounter with a reclusive beast by a campfire shifts her path away from performance and survival toward something more dangerous and uncertain.
✅ You’ll Love This If You Crave:
- heroines who are physically unusual
- monsters
- slow-burn romance
- fairy tales
- emotional scars
- mad science
- found family
- curses with mechanical logic
- sentient automatons
- airships, circus tents and World’s Fairs
📖 Start with Forsaken Beauty and the Etherbeast
🚫 Not the Right Fit If You Want:
- high heat
- fast-paced action
- no horror elements
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