The Cursed Sleep: A Gender-Bent Retelling of Sleeping Beauty

A prince seeking to be awoken.
A swordswomen seeking meaning.
A gender-bent retelling of Sleeping Beauty.

Prince Evander was meant to rule a kingdom blessed with prosperity, but on the night of his birth, a vengeful fairy placed a terrible curse upon him: on his twenty-first birthday, he would fall into an endless sleep, and nothing—not time, nor magic, nor love—would ever wake him.

For two decades, his parents sought a way to break the curse, but when the fated day arrived, the prophecy came true. Now, the once-thriving kingdom is trapped in an eerie silence, its prince slumbering beneath a spell so powerful that even death cannot touch him.

That is, until a wandering knight named Seraphine stumbles into the abandoned castle. She is no noble hero, just a swordswoman with nothing left to lose, but when she discovers the sleeping prince, she realizes that waking him might be the key to unraveling a far greater mystery for Evander’s curse is not just a fairy’s vengeance. It is a lock on something ancient, something that should never be awakened.

And if Evander opens his eyes, the world may never sleep again.