<p>From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner <em>Your Own, Sylvia </em>and the acclaimed novel<em> Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, </em>comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic <em>Frankenstein</em>.</p><p>An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness: <em>Hideous Love </em>is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein.</p><p>This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.</p>