Dawn Rising is the first book in the Awakened series, a dystopian fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. Aurianna must rewrite the past in order to save the future. When a mysterious stranger sweeps her back in time, she discovers there is more to her life than she ever imagined. Aurianna must race against time to uncover the truth about a catastrophe that is destined to leave their world broken and create the only future she has ever known.