Maleficent: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty / Historical Romance / Time Travel / Fantasy
Katy Kellen
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(, Jan. 6, 2020)
Mal’s life is turning into a nightmare. An orphan of the Great Depression, she makes a desperate deal: safety and security, in exchange for marrying her best friend’s father. But by the end of her wedding, her best friend - now her stepdaughter - succumbs to the mysterious sleeping sickness that’s sweeping the country. Mal would do anything to save her best friend. But her sacrifice will cost her everything.A hundred years later, Mal is the prize of the University of Oklahoma’s teaching hospital. The last surviving patient of the 20th century sleeping sickness, she’s about to awaken from a coma and in to a whole new world...and confront the evil that stole a century of her life. Author’s Note: A 30,000+ word retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Sleeping Beauty.”