Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother leads her on a remarkable journey to uncover her grandmother's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. Her journey leads her to the brutality and horror of the Nazi holocaust in war time Poland, where the wall of thorns becomes a barbed-wire prison and the sleeping princess is both victim and heroine.;A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale finds Briar Rose living in forests patrolled by the German army during World War II in a dark tale of the Holocaust.
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