Sleeping Beauties and Beasts

Lord Aaprin Summerfelt has been recalled by the Empress as the threat to the Empire from within and without grows perilous. He's assigned to the one problem no one has been able to solve... The Imperial heir, the little Princess, continues to elude her lessons. For her part, the Princess's haven, her magical library, has been discovered. Past and present, realities shifting, she finds herself confronting those whose histories she's been more than reading... Lady Farrel, and a number of her companions, find themselves outside their own time and place -- and a book of old twisted fairy tales trembles on its shelf as Lady Farrel meets the gaze of the princess's older half-sister, Farrel's daughter, who she left as a babe and history says she never saw again.Meanwhile, in the past, a dragon's fire awaits Lady Farrel as the Demonlord's schemes threatens the existence of the kingdom of her birth, but end humanity and their elvin allies once and for all.There only hope may be the magic of true love's kiss, sleeping beauties and beasts.