Prologue: The Story So Far Summary

Beauty's Release by Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, is the third part of an erotic trilogy following Sleeping Beauty through her adventures after being rescued. Beauty is a royal sex slave who is kidnapped from the Village and sent to another kingdom to serve the Sultan. She finds love as she learns new ways of life in another realm and is forced to leave her love behind when she is rescued and returned to the life of nobility. Beauty's Release is an erotic fairy tale that explores sexual nature through the eyes of one of the best-known fairy tale characters created.

In the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty is awakened by a kiss to find herself naked and Prince Charming raping her. She is taken to his kingdom to serve as a royal pleasure slave with the...