While Beauty Slept

By Elizabeth Blackwell

Book Overview

Historical fiction at its best - The Brothers Grimm meets The Thirteenth Tale? I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. And so begins Elise Dalriss's story. 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. 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. Her story unveils a labyrinth where secrets connect to an inconceivable evil. As only Elise understands all too well, the truth is no fairy tale.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399166238
• ISBN13: 9780399166235
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher