Beauty's Kingdom

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Penguin, 2015 - Fiction - 356 pages
Before E. L. James and Sylvia Day, there was Anne Rice: Discover Beauty's Kingdom, the fourth novel in the bestselling Sleeping Beauty series

Mega-bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, returns to the mysterious kingdom of Queen Eleanor in this new chapter of her Sleeping Beauty series. When the great queen is reported dead, Beauty and Laurent return to the kingdom they left twenty years before. Beauty agrees to take the throne, but she insists that all erotic servitude be voluntary. Countless eager princes, princesses, lords, ladies, and commoners journey to Beauty's realm, where she and her husband usher in a new era of desire, longing, and ecstasy. Provocative and stirring, Rice's imaginative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty myth will be adored by her longtime fans and new readers of erotica just discovering the novels.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

 

Contents

BEHOLD SHE SLEEPS AGAIN
21
TO RULE OR NOT TO RULE?
27
THE FATE OF A KINGDOM HANGS IN THE BALANCE
36
BELOVED QUEEN BELOVED SLAVE
53
A NEW AND MORE PERFECT VISION
63
THE NEW KINGDOM AT LAST
101
ΠΟΙ
173
THE QUEENS STABLES
248
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About the author (2015)

A. N. Roquelaure is a pseudonym for the author Anne Rice. Under this name she wrote The Sleeping Beauty Quartet which is a series of four novels. The quartet comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015 in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent. In 2015 Beauty's Kingdom made the New York Times Best Seller List.