Dreams and Dragon Wings: A Gender-Flipped Sleeping Beauty Retelling (Clean Fairytales for Adults) by Ashley Willingham

Destined to be together. Cursed to be apart. AURELIA: My heart belongs to the one man I can never have—my best friend, Benevolence, the dragon king. The Door between our worlds lies closed, leaving us with nothing but ink and parchment to bridge the distance. But mere letters are no longer enough. Today, I'm thirty years old and my heart aches for something real. A royal ball approaches, and with it, a chance to forge a new path. I write to tell Bene goodbye. And that’s when the nightmare begins. BENE: My love for Aurelia may very well destroy us both. She has no idea what she is, but I sensed it the moment we met as children. She is a Jewel—the strongest of the fae and the last of her kind. And the very woman fated to be my queen before my uncle cursed us both. To protect her, I force myself to stay away. Until the moment I sense she's in true danger. The clock is ticking. For the first time in twelve years, the Door between our worlds lies open. And I'm not the only dragon now racing toward the last living Jewel. Her power calls to us all. But will my love be enough to protect her from our fate? Read more