Beauty's Release

Beauty's Release is the third volume of Anne Rice's erotic Sleeping Beauty series, published in 1985 under the pen name A. N. Roquelaure. Beauty, the princess awakened from the fairy tale in the first book and trained in submission in the Queen's kingdom, becomes the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and is held in his harem.

The novel follows her and other captive royal youths across the sea and into the Sultan's realm, continuing the series' adult, BDSM-centred reimagining of the classic tale. It is explicit erotica for adult readers, and the series was later continued by Beauty's Kingdom in 2015.