When Sleeping Beauty is really the Evil Queen, what prince would dare to wake her? Ardan is desperate. If he doesn't return soon with the head of the Black Queen he'll lose everything…including his life. But finding the elusive faery queen is proving difficult. And time is running out. Waking from her magical sleep, the only thing Aeval remembers is her name. But soon she realizes—even a little knowledge is dangerous. So she becomes Thorn and sets off with the man whose mission is to kill the Black Queen. When Ardan finds out that Thorn might be the queen he’s sworn to slay, will falling in love be enough to stop him from killing? Or will Thorn take up the mantle of dark power and again become the Queen of the Black Court? Dare to enter Jessica Aspen’s world of steamy, fantasy romance in her twisted fairy tale series: Tales of the Black Court