While Beauty Slept

Elizabeth Blackwell is a story-telling genius. Her mesmerizing writing weaves a spell that will enchant you.While Beauty Sleptbreathes new life into the fairytale genre with a historical twist that will take your breath away. Meg Cabot #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Princess Diariesand Heather Wells mystery series. I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards leaving no trace in the fables of their timeAnd so begins Elise Dalrisss story. When she hears her great-granddaughter recount a minstrels tale about a beautiful princess asleep in a tower it pushes open a door to the past a door Elise has long kept locked. For Elise was the companion to the real princess who slumberedand she is the only one left who knows what actually happened so many years ago.As the memories start to unfold Elise is plunged back into the magnificent world behind the palace walls she left behind more than a half century ago a labyrinth where the secrets of her real father and the mysterious fate of her mother connect to an inconceivable evil. Elise has guarded these secrets for a lifetime. As only Elise understands all too well the truth is no fairy tale.