Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"Truly one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. This sweeping tale of love lost and found is told with old-world elegance and grace with just the right touch of magic." —M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author In a world of etiquette and polite masks, no one is who they seem to be. Antonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her first Grand Season, where she will attend balls and mingle among high society. Under the tutelage of the beautiful but cold Valerie Beaulieu she hopes to find a suitable husband. However, the haphazard manifestations of Nina’s telekinetic powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. Yet dazzling telekinetic performer and outsider Hector Auvray sees Nina’s powers as a gift, and he teaches her how to hone and control them. As they spend more and more time together, Nina falls in love and believes she’s found the great romance that she’s always dreamt of. But Hector’s courtship of Nina is deceptive. The Beautiful Ones is a sweeping fantasy of manners set in a world inspired by the belle époque.

A Novel

The Beautiful Ones

Elena M.

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Valérie Beaulieu must remain he remembered her: the most devastating woman in the room.

She'd read of men who inspired women to blush prettily, who made their hearts hammer in their chests, who could cause a girl to swoon. She'd read, yes, but never experienced it.

While her mother was expecting only a suitable match, Nina was hoping for the romance of a lifetime followed by the grandest wedding imaginable.

"Nina is not a name," Valérie replied. "Attempting to shorten your name is a horrid habit, one you should outgrow. 

A sea roared inside her and made demands, but she waded it, she bobbed up, took a breath, and opened her eyes to the cold winter morning, Then she rose because the day was there, the world was there, and she wanted to be part of it.

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