The kiss was just the beginning . The second publication in Rhiannon Thomas’s epic retelling of Sleeping Beauty combines experience, magic, and love for any sweeping dream about one girl’s journey to fulfill her destiny.

Aurora was said to be her kingdom’s savior. However when she was compelled to decide between being loyal to the crown and devoted to her nation, she set occasions in motion that top quality her a traitor.

Now, hunted from the king’s soldiers, Aurora’s only potential for freeing her kingdom from the king’s tyrannical rule is by understanding how to control her magic. But Aurora’s powers come at a price-one that causes her to leave the only house she’s ever known, one that demands she choose between the man she loves as well as the people she looks for to safeguard, and one that will cause her to unravel the mysteries surrounding the curse that was placed on her over a hundred years before . . . and uncover the truth about her destiny.