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The Sleeping Beauty (novel) The Sleeping Beauty (novel) The Sleeping Beauty is a novel by Mercedes Lackey, published in 2010 as the fifth book of the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series. As in the previous book, "The Snow Queen", characters from earlier books are either mentioned or appear as secondary characters "The Sleeping Beauty" was written by Mercedes Lackey as the fifth installment in her Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series. Lily is the godmother to the Kingdom of Eltaria, which is quite wealthy due to its vast number of mines. After its queen dies, Lily takes on the appearance of