"This utterly enchanting new twist on `Sleeping Beauty' made me feel as if I had been transported into legend itself. Susan King makes what is old new again." Kathe Robin, Romantic Times, 4 /12 stars, Top Pick, K.I.S.S. "Fluid prose and engaging central characters weave a subtle spell...well-researched details about Victorian archaeology and a sensational, swashbuckling climax make this Sleeping Beauty story a treat for King's fans." Publisher's Weekly "WAKING THE PRINCESS is wonderful. I highly recommend this well-written, captivating novel." Romance Reviews Today ** A Perfect Ten** "Susan King spins pure magic!" Mary Jo Putney

Waking The Princess
Susan King

Only true love can awaken passion and restore a legend...but the one man who has the power must never fall in love....

In Taming the Heiress, Susan King captivated readers with a thrilling tale of love and enchantment in Victorian Scotland. Now she returns to this magical time and place with an enduring legend—about a beautiful sleeping maiden and a handsome young laird who would never find love…until the maiden awoke.

An antiquarian for the National Museum, Christina Blackburn has her reasons for disguising her smoldering beauty with a pair of prim spectacles and an icy facade. She posed for a painting that scandalized the Victorian art world—“The Briar Maiden of Dundrennan”—and it nearly ruined her life. Ever since, she vowed to suppress her passionate nature and keep her identity a secret. But when the museum sends her on a trip across Scotland, Christina finds herself face to face with the same notorious painting—and its dangerously handsome owner. Sir Aedan Arthur MacBride knows the local legend about the sleeping maiden, of course, but refuses to believe in such a curse. Then he gazes upon this very real maiden’s face, and he knows he is utterly doomed…

Signet, September 2003
352 pages ISBN: 0451208838
Paperback
$6.99