To top it off, there’s a robot set out to “Terminate!” her. She doesn’t understand the new slang or the futuristic inventions, an alien classmate thinks her mind is scary, she’s keeping her sad and mysterious past a secret, and everyone she ever loved is gone. Rose is sixteen ( technically) and her whole world has changed. This SciFi book deals with what happened after Sleeping Beauty woke up and it wasn’t exactly happily ever after for her.

Now imagine that nobody woke the Sleeping Beauty up for sixty-two years, and you’ve got the core idea for A Long, Long Sleep. Imagine the story of Sleeping Beauty set in the future with some Doctor Who-like elements. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence, Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes–or be left without any future at all. Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake, hoping that he can help her to start fresh. Now, her parents and her first love are long gone, and Rose–hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire–is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew.

Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss.

But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone– and her future full of peril. It should have been a short suspended-animation sleep.

A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan