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Beauty's Kingdom

A Novel

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Length 15 hours 29 minutes
Language English
Narrators Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Sophie Eastlake, Dominic Hoffman & John Lee

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The erotic Sleeping Beauty trilogy now continues with a fourth novel by master storyteller and bestselling author of Prince Lestat, Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure
 
Mega-bestselling author Annie Rice returns to where she left off in Beauty’s Release with the disappearance of Queen Eleanor in Bellavalten. Now, twenty years after they were forced to leave the kingdom to return to their homeland, Beauty and her husband Laurent agree to travel back as its king and queen, to uphold the ways of complete sensual surrender, with a twist: they now insist on voluntary servitude in Bellavalten.
 
Countless eager princes, princesses, lords, ladies, and common folk journey to Beauty’s new kingdom where she and her husband awaken their domain, ushering in a new era of desire, longing, and sexual ecstasy. Provocative and stirring, Rice’s imaginative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty myth will be hailed by her longtime fans and new readers of erotica just discovering the novels. This book is intended for mature audiences.


Read by Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Sophie Eastlake, Dominic Hoffman and John Lee.

A. N. Roquelaure is also known as bestselling author Anne Rice. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and is the author of the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy, or Ramses the DamnedViolinAngel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-six books, including the fifteen books in the Vampire Chronicles series. She lives in La Quinta, California.

Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to date. Winner of four Audie Awards and nominated for a dozen more, she was a 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame. She has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. As an acting teacher, she spent five years as a faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has performed in and directed dozens of plays at theaters across the country. 

Danny Campbell’s acting credits include the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Stage West, and the Mint Theatre in NYC. He is also a company member of The Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, has appeared in numerous commercials, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at Santa Monica College.

A. N. Roquelaure is also known as bestselling author Anne Rice. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and is the author of the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy, or Ramses the DamnedViolinAngel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-six books, including the fifteen books in the Vampire Chronicles series. She lives in La Quinta, California.

Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to date. Winner of four Audie Awards and nominated for a dozen more, she was a 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame. She has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. As an acting teacher, she spent five years as a faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has performed in and directed dozens of plays at theaters across the country. 

Danny Campbell’s acting credits include the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Stage West, and the Mint Theatre in NYC. He is also a company member of The Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, has appeared in numerous commercials, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at Santa Monica College.

A. N. Roquelaure is also known as bestselling author Anne Rice. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and is the author of the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy, or Ramses the DamnedViolinAngel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-six books, including the fifteen books in the Vampire Chronicles series. She lives in La Quinta, California.

Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to date. Winner of four Audie Awards and nominated for a dozen more, she was a 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame. She has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. As an acting teacher, she spent five years as a faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has performed in and directed dozens of plays at theaters across the country. 

Danny Campbell’s acting credits include the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Stage West, and the Mint Theatre in NYC. He is also a company member of The Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, has appeared in numerous commercials, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at Santa Monica College.

A. N. Roquelaure is also known as bestselling author Anne Rice. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and is the author of the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy, or Ramses the DamnedViolinAngel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-six books, including the fifteen books in the Vampire Chronicles series. She lives in La Quinta, California.

Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to date. Winner of four Audie Awards and nominated for a dozen more, she was a 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame. She has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. As an acting teacher, she spent five years as a faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has performed in and directed dozens of plays at theaters across the country. 

Danny Campbell’s acting credits include the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Stage West, and the Mint Theatre in NYC. He is also a company member of The Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, has appeared in numerous commercials, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at Santa Monica College.

A. N. Roquelaure is also known as bestselling author Anne Rice. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and is the author of the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy, or Ramses the DamnedViolinAngel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-six books, including the fifteen books in the Vampire Chronicles series. She lives in La Quinta, California.

Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to date. Winner of four Audie Awards and nominated for a dozen more, she was a 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame. She has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. As an acting teacher, she spent five years as a faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has performed in and directed dozens of plays at theaters across the country. 

Danny Campbell’s acting credits include the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Stage West, and the Mint Theatre in NYC. He is also a company member of The Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, has appeared in numerous commercials, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at Santa Monica College.

Audiobook details

ISBN:
9780698410190

Length:
15 hours 29 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#47,727 Overall

Genre rank:
#156 in Erotica

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Reviews

PRAISE FOR BEAUTY'S KINGDOM

Voluptuous imagery and graphic scenes...Roquelaure pulls no punches (or holds back no spankings). The fairy-tale setting provides an apt stage, and the magical world clearly marks the erotic action as fantasy.”
Kirkus

“[A] thumbs-up…. BEAUTY’S KINGDOM is a delightful, immersive read, all at once playful, campy, explicit, erotic, and provocative.”
Publisher’s Weekly 

"Rice’s lush prose is elegant and enchanting, reminiscent of classic historical fiction in its lyrical structure and elaborate description"
—Library Journal 

As Rice returns to the realm of BDSM, we are eager to learn what boundaries she has left to push. New and old readers alike will surely enjoy submitting to some quality time with these books.”
RT Reviews
 
“Anne Rice has drawn with her ever beautiful prose an erotic domain built around freedom, choice, acceptance, and assent. It is a safe place that encourages the reader to find his/her own path of sensuality and sexual fulfillment.”
Pop Mythology
 
“This is not a traditional romance; Beauty’s Kingdom is a fierce, fearless BDSM fantasy read; erotica at its BEST, written by a master storyteller. What’s not to love? Provocative and stirring, Beauty’s Kingdom is an uncompromising erotic work start to finish.”
Book Crack (5 out of 5 stars)
 
The story is a grandiose, liberating dreamscape that lets anyone that suffers from different insecurities about their sexual identity, feel freed by Anne Rice’s experienced guiding hand.”
Air of Mystery Reviews
 
approach it like triple chocolate cheesecake; take it in slowly, one sliver at a time, and perhaps even share it with someone special.”
I Smell Sheep (4 out of 5 Sheep)
 
 “If you are looking for a H.O.T., well written story, and love fantasy reads…you won’t be disappointed in Beauty’s Kingdom.” Flirty and Dirty Book Blog (3.5 stars out of 5)
 “BEAUTY'S KINGDOM is a treat and should not be missed.”
Fresh Fiction

“Rice writes excellent, interesting, sympathetic characters… this is guaranteed to put a bounce in your britches.”
Romance & Smut
 
BEAUTY’S KINGDOM is a refined erotic gem for the sophisticated adult.”
Agents of Romance
 
 “This book is no joke…. Yep, this story centers around dominate and submissive characters, bondage, and discipline. Throw in the complexities of relationships and friendships and you have a pretty intense story.”
Shelf Addiction
 
“A feast for fans of fantasy play, dress-up, power exchange in wild settings, BEAUTY’S KINGDOM is sure to be a knock-out once again for Rice.”
Dawnamatrix
 
“I found that I actually wanted to know what happens to these characters—I was no longer in it just for the sex. And I was not disappointed.”
Bookshelf Bombshells
 
4 out of 5 stars, Sexy Book Reviews Expand reviews
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