

In the parallel (past) story, Rosalind (Belle’s mother) cursed the Prince after his parents did nothing to defend magical people in their kingdom from an ethnic cleansing done by humans that brought the magical people near to extinction.

Belle is forced to abandon her Normal World of mother-orphan girl and enters a new condition: she has a mother, which could be alive and seems terrible, and Belle is trapped in her mother’s curse-as the castle become blocked by magic-with her mother’s magic’s result: the Beast. In the parallel story about Belle’s parents, Maurice and Rosalind get married.īoth the stories-the “present” about Belle and the Beast and the “past” about Belle’s mother/Belle’s birth/Beast’s creation-are engaged nearly at the same time in the book.įirst Plot Point: Belle accidentally destroys the enchanted rose and has a vision discovering who transformed the Beast: her own mother, which Belle totally forgot since childhood. Belle looks for him and arrives at Beast’s castle. Inciting Event: Philippe the horse comes back to Belle’s house, but her father is missing.

She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish and five coffee trees she insists will start producing beans any day. She also has short stories in Geektastic and Who Done It and a new series of reimagined fairy tales coming out, starting with A Whole New World-a retelling of Aladdin. Finally she caved into fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by The Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. You can email her at After the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games.

After the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games.
