Bellamy and the Brute

Bellamy and the Brute is Alicia Michaels' young adult retelling of Beauty and the Beast, set in the small town of Wellhollow Springs.

When Bellamy McGuire is offered a summer job babysitting for the wealthy Baldwin family, she is reluctant to accept. Everyone in town knows about the mysterious happenings at the mansion on the hill, including the sudden disappearance of the Baldwins' eldest son, Tate.

The former football star and golden boy of Wellhollow Springs became a hermit at the age of sixteen, and no one has seen or heard from him since. Rumours abound as to why, with whisperings about a strange illness, one that causes deformity and turned him into a real-life monster. Bellamy takes the job, and the house's secrets begin to open to her.