Asleep (Fairytale Collection, book 2)

by Nicole Ciacchella

Overview

**Note: This book contains some mature content**

A reimagining of the sleeping beauty tale.

When her beloved Prince Devaran is abducted from her parents' castle during their engagement announcement ceremony, Princess Jessmyn vows that nothing will stop her from bringing his abductors to justice. Rescuing Dev won't be easy, and Jess will have to form an alliance with the other Realms if she's to win the most important battle of her life.

Imprisoned in a forbidding tower, Dev tries to find a way to warn Jess of the perils she'll face. Weakened by deprivation and by the drugs administered by the madwoman who kidnapped him, Dev drifts between sleep and consciousness. As he relives cherished moments spent with Jess, Dev wonders if he'll ever again be with the woman he loves.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016708928
Publisher:	Sweenix Rising Books
Publication date:	06/13/2013
Series:	Fairytale Collection , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Nicole has progressed from scribbling in notebooks to banging on keyboards, but she’s never managed to stop daydreaming at inappropriate moments.

When not answering the demands of her characters, Nicole can often be found curled up with a good book or spending far too many hours acting the hero in whatever video game is her obsession of the moment.

One of Nicole’s other great passions is travel. She loves being married to a native Belgian, both because she likes the idea of being “The American” and because it gives her plenty of excuses to visit Europe—that wondrous land of coffee, chocolate, pastry—as often as possible.

Michigan born and raised, Nicole lives there with her honorary Michigander/Belgian husband and her two children. A Michigan State University alum, Nicole bleeds green and is a Spartan for life.

(Elizabeth Darcy is a pen name that Nicole Ciacchella no longer uses.)

Editorial Reviews

Narrated in fairy-tale fashion, the book takes us into a medieval world of dreams, castles, warriors, and kingdoms. We cheer for Jess as she races against time to save her beloved prince, and we feel for Dev as he attempts to hold on to his sanity while drugged and imprisoned. This is the second book I read by Elizabeth Darcy. The first one was Eye of the Beholder, a beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and once again her magical writing transported me to an enchanting dreamland.

Goodreads - Kari Kaz

I thought it was a wonderfully told story. Elizabeth does a wonderful job of retelling the fairytales that I find myself attached to the characters and what is going on with them, even when I already know how the story is going to end.It was unique in that the prince was the one in and out of sleep and the princess is the warrior on the quest to save him. I loved how the romance/relationship developed over the course of the story between Jess and Dev and how they thought entirely of the other.

Goodreads - Tawnya McBride