The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
By Leanna Renee Hieber

What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadows, of the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She saw simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gift. This arched stone doorway was a portal to a new life, to an education far from what could be had at a convent-and it was an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death….

Reviews:

"Tender, poignant, exquisitely written." -New York Times Bestselling Author C.L. Wilson

"Hieber's debut shows great potential, and readers will want to revisit her intriguing world." -Publishers Weekly

"A strangely beautiful tale indeed! An ethereal, lyrical story that combines myth, spiritualism and the gothic in lush prose and sweeping passion." -USA Today Bestselling Author Kathryn Smith

"Hieber's debut shows great potential, and readers will want to revisit her intriguing world." -Publishers Weekly

"A strangely beautiful tale indeed! An ethereal, lyrical story that combines myth, spiritualism and the gothic in lush prose and sweeping passion." -USA Today Bestselling Author Kathryn Smith

"Actor and playwright Hieber could not have picked a more accurate title for this suspenseful, otherworldly tale because it is, indeed, strange in its happenings and mood and beautiful in its romance and language…. Hieber has created a secretive, gothic, paranormal world as well as a character who will resonate with anyone who has found the beauty in being different. Happily (or is it eerily?), this is the first romance in Hieber's Strangely Beautiful series." -Booklist

A rural Ohio native, Leanna Renee Hieber was writing as soon as she could hold a pen to paper and finish a sentence. Having obtained a BFA in Theatre and a minor in the Victorian Era, Leanna remains overwhelmingly obsessed with the 19th century, and all things ghost and gothic. While performing in the regional theatre circuit, her first publications were hotheaded little plays that garnered national recognition and continue to be produced across the country. She lives happily in New York City with a wonderful man and an impossibly cute albino rabbit named Persebunny.