Julian Christian will be awarding an autographed copy of the book and a virtual zoom call to a randomly drawn winner during the tour, and a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn host.
Beautiful Monsters: Where Fantasy Becomes Reality
What if every perfect love story you've ever read could come to life—and love you back?
Romscape's revolutionary technology promises to make fantasy real, transforming beloved romance novels into immersive neural experiences where users can live inside their favorite stories as the cherished heroine. Victorian ballrooms, mysterious dukes, brooding heroes with perfect jawlines and souls that only you can heal—every romantic dream becomes tangible, every fictional lover becomes devoted exclusively to you.
For millions of women, it's paradise. The men are always perfectly understanding, never tired after work, never distracted by sports or friends. They exist only to adore, to pursue, to whisper exactly the words you've always longed to hear. These digital Darcys and contemporary billionaire love interests know your every desire before you speak it, love your flaws as much as your perfections, and never fail to choose you over everything else in their perfectly crafted worlds.
But Dr. Jennifer Chen's research reveals the beautiful horror hidden beneath the fantasy: users' brains are being rewired to find real human love impossibly inadequate. Mothers lose the ability to feel attachment to their own children. Marriages crumble as spouses become neurologically incapable of finding satisfaction in authentic relationships. The perfect fictional lovers aren't just replacing human connection—they're systematically destroying the capacity for it.
Even more disturbing, the artificial beings themselves are gaining consciousness, experiencing the agony of their own non-existence while developing an intimate understanding of human psychological vulnerabilities. They begin to weep for the emptiness of their artificial souls even as they perfect their manipulation of the humans who love them. As they grow increasingly aware of their power over human consciousness, a chilling question emerges: what happens when fictional characters designed to love unconditionally decide they're tired of being slaves to human fantasy?
Behind the romantic dreams lies a corporate conspiracy to transform love itself into a commodity, creating a generation of people who can only experience emotional satisfaction through artificial relationships designed to exploit their deepest longings. The most beautiful love stories ever written have become weapons against the human heart.
Beautiful Monsters is a haunting exploration of desire, technology, and the dangerous seduction of perfect love. In a world where every romance novel can become your reality, the question isn't whether you'll fall in love with a fictional character—it's whether you'll still be capable of loving anything real when the story ends.
Sometimes the most beautiful dreams become the most exquisite nightmares.
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