I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. So begins Elise Dalriss’s story. When she hears her great-granddaughter recount a minstrel’s tale about a beautiful princess asleep in a tower‚ it pushes open a door to the past‚ a door Elise has long kept locked. For Elise was the companion to the real princess who slumbered — and the only one left who knows what actually happened so many years ago. And the truth is no fairy tale.

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