On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl.&nbsp; She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school.&nbsp; No one she'd ever known had died.&nbsp; But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.<BR><BR>After the funeral Renée's wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude Sciences.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR><BR>It's there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn.&nbsp; As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can't stop herself from falling in love.&nbsp; It's only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried's past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems.</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life.<BR><BR><I>Dead Beautiful</I> is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking read, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul.</DIV><DIV>