
"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy "Something very special. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice's deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come.

as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.

His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. In the first book of the series, Anne Rice (author of Beauty's Kingdom), writing as A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rice 3,738 Kindle 1299 18.00 Available instantly Audible Audiobook 00019. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: A Novel (Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Book 1) Book 1 of 4: Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.

James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, there was Anne Rice's New York Times best seller The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince.
