After journalist Savannah Carmichael's career and personal life are destroyed, she returns to her hometown to lick her wounds. Soon she is offered to write a strong story, an article that should touch the hearts of readers, and she agrees to return to the profession. Savannah chooses as her subject a local hero, Afghanistan war veteran Asher Lee, a recluse with a disfigured face and a missing arm who has not left his home for eight years, and with whom she, after some effort, arranges a series of interviews. This book is a modern “Beauty and the Beast”, the first in a series of fairy tale adaptations in a new way.