Beautiful Villain – Kenney Rebecca (2024)

The Great Gatsby meets The Vampire Diaries in this spicy modern retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic. Seven years ago, I lost him for good. Now he's back, but is he still the Jay Gatsby I used to know...or is he something more? Something...darker. Daisy Finnegan is looking forward to a summer of fun on Glassy Mountain, North Carolina. She doesn't want to think about college, or the newly awakened power of her own voice, which has a way of making people do increasingly frightening things. But when her cousin goes missing at an exclusive house party, Daisy confronts the mysterious host...only to discover the wealthy recluse is Jay Gatsby, her childhood sweetheart. Shocked at the change in the boy she once knew so well, Daisy investigates the source of Gatsby's new riches and becomes entangled in a web of dizzying wealth, lies and obsession darker than she ever could have dreamed. It all culminates in an act of violence that shatters the summer haze and threatens to drown them all. But it isn't until Gatsby is shot through the heart—and survives—that Daisy learns the whole truth. Gatsby clawed his way up in the world by selling the secret of immortality to the highest bidder,…