In "Beauty’s Kingdom," Anne Rice, as A. N. Roquelaure, continues the Sleeping Beauty series. After Queen Eleanor's death, Beauty and Laurent return to claim the throne, advocating for voluntary erotic servitude. The novel explores themes of desire and ecstasy, appealing to both longtime fans and new readers of erotica. Intended for mature audiences.
From Anne Rice, author of Beauty's Kingdom, the third book in the erotic Sleeping Beauty seriesBefore 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 final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love's secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.
After waking her from her hundred-year slumber, the Prince takes Sleeping Beauty as a sex slave and brings her to live in his kingdom where she learns to become submissive and fulfills the sexual desires of nobles and other slaves.
Durante todo el año, los lugareños ahorraban cuanto podían para el dia en que, por unas cuantas monedas, podían adquirir un esclavo altivo, un príncicipe elegido para servir, adiestrado y preparado para la corte, que entonces durante todo el verano debía de obedecer a cualquier humilde sirvienta o mozo de cuadra que pujara lo suficiente en la subasta pública. El jefe de patrulla no podía evitar anticiparse al final del verano e imaginar a estos mismos jóvenes ahora quejosos y forcejeantes, en el momento de ser devueltos, tas concienzudos castigos, con las cabezas inclinadas y las bocas calladas, en la más completa sumisión.
Step beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies... When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...
