Calysta Daniels is a shadow aching, but scared, to be seen. Her smile is quiet, uncertain — a mask for pain she carves into her own skin. When her father’s ships sink, so do the lies holding their family together.

They flee to an island of wolves, but for the first time, she starts to feel at home. Here, she comes face-to-face with a quiet truth: In one’s ugliness, can faith comfort? Transform? Hold?

Before she’s brave enough to learn to love a beast, Calysta must learn she was never just a duckling — she’s always been a swan, named ‘most beautiful’ by the King.

The Making of a Beauty is a coming-of-age novel that stares pain in the face and dares to believe God can rewrite the scars we fear we can’t erase.

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