Peternelle van Arsdale

Step inside for all you need to know about me and my young adult novels--the dark fairy tales THE BEAST IS AN ANIMAL and THE COLD IS IN HER BONES. THE BEAST IS AN ANIMAL is an eerie, compelling, wholly original fairytale of far-flung villages, dark woods, and creatures that hunt in the night. It’s about soul eaters and evil twins. Monsters and witches. It’s also a deeply human story about a girl finding her way in a world that is ugly and beautiful, good and bad—and discovering the same within herself. THE COLD IS IN HER BONES is a suspenseful, vividly imagined novel about a girl whose family has kept her safe from a demonic curse that has gripped the nearby village for a generation. But now the curse has come for her, and she’s determined to break it forever.