Ugly Sleeping Beauty

By Jamie Campbell

History is told from one person’s perspective. Sometimes they don’t get it right.

The Wicked Fairy has been wrongly accused of cursing Sleeping Beauty with a fate that would take her life if she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel.

But you haven’t been told the full story. The Wicked Fairy is only doing what she believes is in the best interests of the kingdom.

Now, with Sleeping Beauty coming of age, the fairy has to do something in order to stop her destroying everything. All she needs to do is find the princess.

Can the Wicked Fairy find Sleeping Beauty before everything is lost? Can she convince the entire kingdom of her innocence? And what is Sleeping Beauty really hiding?

A charming twist to the story of Sleeping Beauty, told completely from the point of view of the Wicked Fairy.

Also in the Fairy Tales Retold Series:
Cinderella is Evil
Saving Rapunzel
Killing Snow White
I Love Little Red
The Beast with no Beauty
The Fairy Tales Retold Complete Series (Save by buying all in one)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jamie Campbell
• Release date: Mar 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310286193

Jamie Campbell

Jamie was born into a big, crazy family of 6 children. Being the youngest, she always got away with anything and would never shut up. Constantly letting her imagination run wild, her teachers were often frustrated when her 'What I did on the weekend' stories contained bunyips and princesses.Growing up, Jamie did the sensible things and obtained a Bachelor of Business degree from Southern Cross University and worked hard to gain her membership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.Yet nothing compared to writing. Quiting the rat race to spend quality time with her laptop named Lily, Jamie has written several novels and screenplays. Spanning a number of genres and mediums, Jamie writes whatever inspires her from ghost stories to teenage love stories to tantalising murder mysteries. Nothing is off limits.A self-confessed television addict, dog lover, Taylor Swift fan, and ghost hunter, Jamie loves nothing more than the thrill of sharing her stories.

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UGLY SLEEPING BEAUTY

Ugly Sleeping Beauty

JAMIE CAMPBELL

Copyright © 2014 Jamie Campbell

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Jamie Campbell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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CHAPTER 1

The wail of the newborn baby interrupted my thoughts. So the kingdom had a new princess, good for it. Just like with any new member of royalty, I was summoned to attend the blessing.

It was tradition in our kingdom for fairies to attend the birth of any royal baby. We had been doing it for centuries and it was important to honor the king and queen. I couldn’t refuse even if I wanted to.

I stood with my fellow fairies, watching the baby girl as she lay in her crib. Each of us were required to give her a gift and wave our magic wand to ensure it would happen. The rules of our kind were that we could only grant one wish for her. Just one, no more and no less.

Fern, the fairy to my right, granted her beauty so she would grow into the most beautiful princess to have ever lived. Petal, the fairy to my left, granted her a perfect singing voice so she could enchant the kingdom with her songs. Yawn.

It was suddenly my turn to grant a gift. Silence fell on the room as I stared at the infant. I had been nervous for days about the gift I would grant. I knew what I had to do but was dreading it anyway. There was no other way, it had to be like this.

I stepped forward, taking one last look at the king and queen. They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. They held so much hope for the little child and all the possibilities of the future. I was about to take that all away.

It brought me no joy to do what I