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  1. Public Bookmark 70

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    In the desolate reaches of the Arctic, Elara has long since accepted her isolation. Her only companions in the frozen tundra are loyal canine Fenrir, the sharp winds of passing storms, and the silence pressing in from every side. But when she finds a half-dead man collapsed in the snow, her fragile balance is shattered.

    His name, rasped through frozen lips, is Victor Frankenstein.

    As Elara fights to keep the stranger from slipping into the jaws of death, she begins to suspect that something vast and terrible is moving out there in the whiteness of the Arctic, something whose presence seems bound to Victor in ways she cannot fathom. Something is waiting, something is watching, and that something very much wants Victor to stay alive.

    No matter the cost.

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  2. Public Bookmark 89

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    At 36, the widowed Comtesse Florence de Mourville has had her share of death; hand over fist and then some. When a storm deposits a strange body on the shores of her Normandy estate in the Spring of 1911, she doesn’t expect it to wake—let alone to speak, to watch her paint, or to upend her quiet exile. What begins as curiosity becomes obsession, and what she thought long buried stirs again: tenderness, want, and a willingness to tear herself open for someone to see what strange manner of creature she is.

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  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    “They do not understand what is different from them, my love. They cannot. Some people simply do not accept it, for it is not part of their reality.” She smiled. “But it does not mean you are at fault. You are the most lovable, gentle creature I have ever met… and a good man. I have already told you. They simply do not deserve your goodness.”

    Her forehead rested against his, her inviting warmth spreading around him."
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    or: Elizabeth and the Creature (Adam) get the chance to start a new life in a cottage in the woods, together.

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    It's been a year since Victor Frankenstein took his last breath. With no choice but to live, Victor's creation accepts a favor from the Danish captain who had listened to both sides of a tragic tale. He has settled into a semblance of life as a blacksmith apprentice to Captain Anderson's brother, Elrik.

    Evelyn Montgomery, mistreated by her brother and forced into servant-like labor despite an injury that leaves her crippled, finds warmth and kindness at the home of the Andersons, old friends of her family. She then meets Adam, the Andersons’ enormous, scarred and painfully shy apprentice.

    (Continuation of the 2025 version directed by Guillermo del Toro.)

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    Elizabeth Harlander has lived almost all the life she can recall within the safe, secluded walls of Saint Margaret's, a convent school for girls of means in Calais, France. Despite her dear uncle's attempts to wed her off, she remains-- but tragedy strikes. The wind blows cold from the North. And soon... something finds her.

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    Or: Elizabeth gets her happy ending.

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