The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first book in The Sleeping Beauty series, is sexcapades galore. It's a modern, kinkier twist on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale in which Beauty is woken up by the the Prince by sexual means and then taken to the Queen's castle to become a submissive. Unbeknownst to them, Beauty is not one to be blindly obedient.