The Curse of Beauty: The Story Behind the Myth

Lauren Lee Merewether

Feb 2022 · LLMBooks Publishing

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Before Medusa became a monster and the Muses became divine, they were women whose stories history refused to forget.

In Bronze Age Tiryns, beauty can inspire devotion, ignite jealousy, and become a weapon in the hands of those who crave power. As kingdoms collide and old beliefs begin to change, a young priestess, caught between duty and desire, witnesses the tragedy of a woman whose beauty will one day become legend—and finds her own story entwined in a tragedy destined to outlive them all.

The Curse of Beauty is an award-winning historical reimagining of what could have inspired the myths of Medusa and the Muses—a deeply human story of forbidden love, loyalty, betrayal, survival, and the terrible price of becoming a legend.

Return to a time when men became legends, kings became gods, and women were the force that turned them.

Choose the Curse.

Remember Their Story.

Winner of the 2022 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for Fiction–Mythology and shortlisted for The Historical Fiction Company's 2022 Book of the Year.

The Book Commentary

“A stirring and memorable tale of survival... filled with audaciously creative imagination.”

— Matthew Novak, The Book Commentary

OnlineBookClub.org

“This one has ranked among the best and has lingered in my thoughts since finishing it.”

— Prisallen, OnlineBookClub.org

Before Medusa became a monster and the Muses became divine, they were women whose stories history refused to forget. In Bronze Age Tiryns, beauty can inspire devotion, ignite jealousy, and become a weapon in the hands of those who crave power. As kingdoms collide and old beliefs begin to change, ...

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Whenever Lauren Lee Merewether visits a place seemingly untouched by time, an emotionally intense family saga is born soon after.

Lauren loves to daydream about times long past while sipping green tea and watching the experts on the Discovery Channel unearth our ancestors' civilizations. She likes to dive into history and find overlooked, under-appreciated and relatively unknown tidbits of our past to craft engaging stories with characters who love and lose, fight wrong with right, and hope in times of despair.

If you like page-turning dramatic plots, simple style and dialogue, stories that evoke strong emotions, well-researched historical settings, and characters with genuine, relatable feelings, a majority of Lauren's reader reviews say you will like her books.

Her upmarket fiction stories contain non-gory violence, no profanity, and no explicit sex/nudity in their pages. While she has gone to great lengths to ensure sensitive subject matters are dealt with in a compassionate and respectful manner, some subject matter in her books may be troubling for some readers.

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Whenever Lauren Lee Merewether visits a place seemingly untouched by time, an emotionally intense family saga is born soon after. Lauren loves to daydream about times long past while sipping green tea and watching the experts on the Discovery Channel unearth our ancestors' civilizations. She like...

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