There once was a beautiful princess afflicted with a terrible curse. There once was a handsome prince, destined to break the curse.

Hey wait, this sounds familiar..

When the beautiful Princess Aurora was a baby, her parents brought the whole kingdom together to celebrate. Three gracious fairies attended, giving her wonderful gifts, as did the evil Maleficent.

No seriously, I’ve heard this story.

But the fairy godmothers didn’t care about the princess; all they wanted was to impress the king. The final gift they granted was crippling obedience. Maleficent twisted their gift, changing it so that if Aurora pricked herself on a briar rose the obedience curse would be lifted.

Oh. Wait, what? That’s not how this goes.

Aurora lived the first 11 years of her life as the perfect obedient princess until one day the teenage Prince Phillip gave her a mangy briar rose.

Freed from her obedience Aurora ran wild, sneaking into the woods and going by the name Rose. On day she met a very handsome hunter, named Hawk, who has a secret of his own. They fall in to bed, and then in love, but keep their secrets, and when Aurora returns to her father’s castle to tell him about Hawk and to renounce her royal status, things go terribly wrong.

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Book Length: Novella

Cover Artist: Christine Griffin

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