Could anyone ever truly love . . . a beast . . . Scarred inside and out, Aden Bontrager hides himself away from the world in his dark house... The community learned long ago not to disturb the beastly young man, the sole survivor of a tragedy that left the town reeling with loss and heartbreak.
Until one night, when a thunderstorm and a bicycle accident forces the community's new schoolteacher to knock at his door.
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