Beloved Monster

He dreamed of conquering death. I dreamed only of loving him.Geneva, the last years of the eighteenth century. Henry Clerval is a merchant's son who would rather write poetry than read a ledger, and he has spent his whole life following the brilliant, reckless Victor Frankenstein. He follows him to the lake, where Victor watches him drown a little before he decides to save him. He follows him into the forbidden books. And when Victor's letters from Ingolstadt stop coming, he follows him there too, and finds his friend burning with fever in a room that smells of lightning and the grave.Victor has done the impossible. He has built a man out of the dead and given it life, and then he ran from what he made.Now the creature is loose in the world. It is eloquent, abandoned and patient, and it knows Henry's name. As the bodies mount and a pact sealed in blood drives the two men north to an island at the edge of the world, Henry is finally given what he has wanted since he was eighteen: Victor, all of him, in the dark. But on that island Victor is also building something else, a bride for his monster. Every night the jealous creature is closer to the cottage door.Told by the man history forgot, Beloved Monster is a lush, heartbreaking and openly sensual retelling of Frankenstein. It is a gothic love story about the maker, the made and the man who loved them both, and about what love costs when it's never said out loud.Between us, we made a monster. And it was beautiful.For adult readers. Contains explicit sex between men, violence, death and grief.