Briar Rose by Jana Oliver (author)

A dark and wild reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty story, beautifully crafted by an award-winning fantasy author.

For Briar Rose, life is anything but a fairy tale. She’s stuck in a small town in deepest Georgia with parents who won’t let her out of their sight. Her evil ex is spreading nasty rumours about her. She’s tired of it all. So when, on her sixteenth birthday, her parents tell her that she is cursed and will fall asleep for a hundred years when the clock strikes midnight, she’s actually kind of glad to leave it all behind. She says her goodbyes, lies down, and closes her eyes… And then she wakes up. Cold, alone and in the middle of the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever have dreamed of. Now – helped by a handsome prince – Briar must fight her way out of the story that has been created for her. Or there will be no happy ever after… and no more waking up.