Beauty and the Werewolf
core novel 2011 Five Hundred Kingdoms
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.80 (8,052 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 329 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780373803460 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Beauty and the Werewolf follows Bella, formally Isabella Beauchamps, the eldest daughter of a wealthy merchant family, who is determined to avoid the predictable fate the Tradition seems to have planned for her. Wearing a red cloak on a walk through the forbidden forest to consult a local wise woman, Bella instead encounters a wolf that turns out to be a cursed nobleman, and finds herself drawn into his household and his troubles. Torn between her obligations to her own family and a growing connection to a man who shifts unpredictably between clever inventor and dangerous werewolf, Bella must decide how far she is willing to go to help break his curse, and what that decision will cost her.
Where it sits
- Universe: Five Hundred Kingdoms
- Series: Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms core; position 6 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
Notes
- From the series record (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms): A completed 7-book sequence of standalone fairy-tale-retelling novels sharing one meta-fictional secondary world ("The Tradition", a narrative-causality force that pushes real lives toward familiar fairy-tale shapes), published 2004-2012 by Luna/Harlequin.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: position 6 of 7: previous The Sleeping Beauty (2010) · next A Tangled Web (2012)
Sources
- Rating-platform listing: Five Hundred Kingdoms series
- Reference listing: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
- https://thelibraryofthegodmothers.fandom.com/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Werewolf
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