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#1 Bestselling Authors Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Return To The World Of Beautiful Creatures With All-New Series NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will publish Dangerous Creatures, a new young adult book series from Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, it was announced today by Megan Tingley, the division's Executive Vice President and Publisher. Dangerous Creatures returns to the world of Beautiful Creatures, Garcia and Stohl's #1 New York Times bestselling series and international sensation, which was recently made into a major motion picture. #1 New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl. Photo credit Vania Stoyanova, VLC Photo.(PRNewsFoto/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) The Dangerous Creatures series will follow Link and Ridley, two fan-favorite characters from Beautiful Creatures. Readers will catch up with Ethan, Lena, and Link as they graduate from high school and get ready to leave the small Southern town of Gatlin, along with Link's sometime girlfriend, Ridley. The series will launch on December 17, 2013, with Dangerous Dream, an enovella that will tie Dangerous Creatures to the world of the original series. Dangerous Creatures, the first book in the new series, will be published simultaneously in hardcover, ebook, and audio formats on May 6, 2014. "Our fans have supported Beautiful Creatures and both of us from the beginning, and we are so grateful. This is for them," said Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. "We can't wait for them to return to Gatlin with us this December. We have more than a few surprises in store for them." "We are ecstatic with the massive success of Beautiful Creatures, which has sold nearly 3.5 million copies to date," said Megan Tingley. "We're eager to satisfy Kami and Margaret's passionate fans with the swift release of a riveting enovella just in time for the holidays, and a brand-new novel the following spring." To celebrate the announcement of the new series, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl will answer fans' questions during a live Twitter chat on Tuesday, September 17, at 4:00 p.m. PT/7:00 p.m. ET. Fans can ask questions about the new series using the hashtag #DangerousCreatures. Beautiful Creatures is a #1 New York Times , USA Today, Los Angeles Times , Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, IndieBound, and internationally bestselling young adult book series. The series includes Beautiful Creatures (2009), Beautiful Darkness (2010), the ebook Dream Dark (2011), Beautiful Chaos (2011), Beautiful Redemption (2012), Beautiful Creatures: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (2013), and Beautiful Creatures: The Manga (2013), and has been translated into thirty-nine languages and sold in fifty countries. Beautiful Creatures was made into a major motion picture in early 2013 from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Brothers, staring Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, and Jeremy Irons, and was written and directed by Academy Award-nominee Richard LaGravenese. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia. Photo credit Vania Stoyanova, VLC Photo. (PRNewsFoto/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Kami Garcia's solo debut novel, Unbreakable, will be published on October 1, 2013. The first book in the highly anticipated Legion series, Unbreakable is a romantic paranormal thriller described by Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, as "tense and deliciously twisty . . . a breathstealing midnight run through some of the creepiest locales I've seen rendered in fiction." Eagerly awaited by her fans around the world, Garcia's forthcoming novel has been praised by Kirkus Reviews for its "cinematic, gripping ghost scenes…[The ending] will leave readers reaching for the next book." Publishers Weekly hailed, "The reality [protagonist Kennedy] is living is a page-turner." The book has been sold in fifteen foreign territories thus far. Margaret Stohl's solo debut novel, Icons, was published in May 2013. Icons is the first book in Stohl's sci-fi series set in a near-future Los Angeles and was praised by The Magician's Lev Grossman, who stated, "I love this book.…It's full of passion and deep truths and the Dangerous Dream enovella by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl to be released December 17, 2013 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. (PRNewsFoto/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) kind of power that people only find when they're driven far, far past their limits." 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