Before 50 Shades of
Grey & Bared To You There was….
THE
SLEEPING BEAUTY CHRONICLES
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE
AUTHOR
People
are much more comfortable today admitting and talking about what they
enjoy in fiction and film. Much more. People are “out of the
closet” about sexuality, period. The whole world knows women are
sensual human beings as well as men. It’s no secret anymore that
women want to read sexy fiction just as men do, and there’s a new
frankness about the varieties of fantasies one might enjoy. So many
clichés have been broken and abandoned. And this is a wonderful
thing. – From Anne Rice’s new preface
in the Sleeping Beauty Chronicles
Many people know that Anne Rice
paved the way for blockbuster books about witches and vampires. What
they may not realize, is that she is also the godmother of pleasure
and pain erotica. When Anne Rice published her seminal SLEEPING
BEAUTY CHRONICLES in
the mid-eighties
under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure, she couldn’t have predicted
that not only would her erotic take on
the famous fairy tale become a
huge underground hit and a mainstay for erotica fans for three
decades, but it would also be a choice as ahead of the curve as her
supernatural novels.
The series is more popular than
ever, and with sadomasochistic erotica dominating bestseller lists,
more and more people are discovering this classic trilogy. Now her
books will be available for a whole new generation of erotica fans.
All three books will hit stores nationwide on July
11th
2012, from Plume with
a provocative new preface and gorgeous re-package
In the first book of the series;
THE CLAIMING OF
SLEEPING BEAUTY (July 11, 2012/ISBN: 9780452281424/$16.00), Rice
follows the traditional folktale of Sleeping Beauty, the spell cast
upon the lovely young can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. In
Rice’s steamy retelling, The Prince awakens Beauty, not with a
kiss, but with sexual conquer. His reward for ending the hundred
years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to
him. Rice’s exploration of the master and sexual slave fantasy is
both elegant and arousing under her skillful pen.
BEAUTY’S PUNISHMENT (July
11, 2012/ISBN: 9780452281431/$16.00)
continues her
explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now
Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with
the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the
Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon
experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as
her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness
is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And
once again Rice's tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most
primal desires of the human heart.
In the final volume of Anne
Rice's titillating erotic trilogy, BEAUTY’S
RELEASE (July 11, 2012/ISBN: 9780452281455)
,
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 makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the
hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.
**GIVEAWAY**
(1) Print copy of THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY (Book #1)
US Only.
