1814: Mary Godwin, the 16-year-old daughter of radical socialist and
feminist writers, runs away with a dangerously charming young
poet--Percy Bysshe Shelley. From there, the two young lovers travel a
Europe in the throes of revolutionary change, through high and low
society, tragedy and passion, where they will be drawn into the orbit of
the mad and bad Lord Byron. But Mary and Percy are not alone: they bring
Jane, Mary's young step-sister. And she knows the biggest secrets of
them all . . . Told from Mary and Jane's perspectives, Monsters is a
novel about radical ideas, rule-breaking love, dangerous Romantics, and
the creation of the greatest Gothic novel of them all: Frankenstein.