Briar Rose (A Noir Sleeping Beauty Retelling)

Briar Rose, the beautiful daughter of a powerful mobster, is cursed by a jealous witch to stop her father from making a critical alliance that will determine the fate of their family empire.

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In the wake of political downfall, the city of Forevermore has fallen, and crime families have risen to take control.

Desperate to survive, Tobias Rose, patriarch of the Rose Family, devises a union to ally with the powerful Spade Family. But Phillip Spade does not want money. To ensure this union, Tobias must promise his infant child, Briar Rose, to be wed to Phillip's son, Julian.

It is a monumental event, the joining of two great territories.

However, Briar's private christening is interrupted by nefarious witch, Vita Hex, leader of the Hex Syndicate, who is on a mission to claim the Spade and Rose territory for her own. To sabotage the union, she curses Briar Rose to be killed on the eve of her 21st birthday, the night before she comes of age to marry Julian.

Determined to stop this evil prophecy, Tobias hires the talents of his private investigator and former detective, Richard Jinx, to keep his daughter safe.

But evil is persistent, and in a gritty, unpredictable world, no one is safe.

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