Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waking Rose is an adventurous romance novel, written by Regina Doman. It is the third book in the Fairy Tale Novels series, based on the story of Sleeping Beauty. The first book, The Shadow of the Bear, is about the Brier sisters, Blanche and Rose; the second book tells of Blanche''s marriage to their friend "Bear". In Waking Rose, Rose Brier finds herself in love with Bear''s brother "Fish". He tells her that he''s not interested, and she decides to get over him. Moving away to college made it a bit easier, especially when she finds herself surrounded by other friends. But then Rose begins to find herself trapped in a mess of her dad''s dangerous past, and falls into a coma after a brush with foul play.