Friday Memes: Hunted by Meagan Spooner

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Beginning:

Yeva watched the sky over the far-off forest, listening to the baronessa with one ear. The air was heavy and unfamiliar.

Friday 56 (from 56% of the eARC):

All her life she'd longed for the tiniest glimpse of this creature. She would not let it drown -- she would free it, take it for her own, feel the heat of its fiery wings on her face.

This week I'm reading Hunted by Meagan Spooner. I got this eARC from Edelweiss. Here is the description from Amazon:

Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood. 

Though Yeva grew up with the city's highest aristocrats, far from her father's old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them.

So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas...or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva's father's misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.

Deaf to her sisters' protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory--a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva's only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?