"Elizabeth Blackwell is a story-telling genius.
Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Ladies\' Home Journal, Parenting, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications..
About the Author: Elizabeth Blackwell is a freelance writer.
As only Elise understands all too well, the truth is no fairy tale.
Elise has guarded these secrets for a lifetime.
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.
For Elise was the companion to the real princess who slumbered--and she is the only one left who knows what actually happened so many years ago.
When she hears her great-granddaughter recount a minstrel\'s tale about a beautiful princess asleep in a tower, it pushes open a door to the past, a door Elise has long kept locked.
And so begins Elise Dalriss\'s story.
Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards, leaving no trace in the fables of their time...
While Beauty Slept breathes new life into the fairytale genre with a historical twist that will take your breath away." --Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Heather Wells mystery series I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told.
Her mesmerizing writing weaves a spell that will enchant you. "Elizabeth Blackwell is a story-telling genius
