Dur­ing the dan­ger­ous storms of 1816, a group of famous young writ­ers gath­ered at a man­sion on the shores of Lake Gene­va, Switzer­land: bril­liant Mary Woll­stonecraft Shel­ley, her fiery fiancé Per­cy Shel­ley, the famous­ly promis­cu­ous Lord Byron, and John Poli­dori, his tor­ment­ed per­son­al physi­cian. At the group’s cen­ter was Claire Clair­mont, Mary’s impres­sion­able, clever, and dan­ger­ous­ly loy­al step­sis­ter. Those months of desire, betray­al, and cre­ative pas­sion gave the world the works of Franken­stein and the myth­ic image of these roman­tic lit­er­ary giants. In this intense and propul­sive sto­ry of love, lust, art and betray­al Claire tells her sto­ry, try­ing to solve the mys­tery of why she was all but erased from his­to­ry. Claire begins an affair with celebri­ty Lord Byron and con­vinces Mary and Shel­ley to fol­low him to Switzer­land. With the threat of paparazzi lurk­ing near­by, Claire’s inti­mate con­nec­tion to each mem­ber of the celebri­ty group grows more com­plex. Her jour­ney of self-dis­cov­ery leads her to doc­u­ment everyone’s secrets in her jour­nal, and when cli­mate dis­as­ter caus­es food short­ages, Claire learns to for­age, deter­mined to prove her worth in a world built by and cre­at­ed for men. The real Claire Clair­mont poured her love, life, and razor-sharp wit into her pages, yet her jour­nal from 1816 is miss­ing, and each mem­ber of the group had a rea­son to take it. With sear­ing rel­e­vance to our here and now — of celebri­ty wor­ship, cli­mate dis­as­ter, and com­pli­cat­ed fem­i­nin­i­ty, Love & Oth­er Mon­sters is the untold ori­gin sto­ry of Franken­stein, a fem­i­nist reck­on­ing of sis­ters, sur­vival, and the cre­ation of monsters.