Sleeping Beauty Boxed Set

From Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, the beautifully repackaged collector's edition of the trilogy that became the bestselling works of her career. Before E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, there was Anne Rice's provocative take on the timeless fairy tale 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. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind. In Anne Rice's retelling, the tale becomes a hypnotic novel of erotic yearning, a dark and romantic dream of love, cruelty, and the awakening of the senses. This collection includes: *The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty*: In the classic folktale, Sleeping Beauty is wakened from a magical slumber by a prince's kiss. Now, in a novel that is both seductive and terrifying, Anne Rice spins a new version of the story, drawing on its most dark and romantic elements. Here the prince is a powerful, dominant hero and Beauty, his willing prisoner, must submit to his firm, erotic discipline. *Beauty's Punishment*: Having indulged in his secret, forbidden fantasies with the captured Beauty, Prince Tristan is now being sold as a slave at the village auction. But his new master, the mysterious Lord Nicholas, has a special plan for Tristan, one that will push him to the very limits of pleasure, pain, and ecstasy. *Beauty's Release*: The third and final volume of the classic erotic trilogy finds Beauty being sent away from the Satyricon-like land of Queen Eleanor to the palace of the Sultan of Bellavalten, where she will compete with other pleasure slaves for the sultan's favor. Back in the queen's domain, her former captors, the princes Tristan and Laurent, are being groomed for a shocking new destiny that will change everything.