Waking Sleeping Beauty
Kevin Moore
Type: ARC
Genre: Thriller
Word count: 80,000
Warnings: Graphic violence, swearing
When teenage hustler Kiddy is murdered on Hollywood Boulevard, Detective Joanna Steele uncovers a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of power. Superstar Mia More and amnesiac Lana DeMille hold dangerous pieces of the truth. In this fierce Sleeping Beauty reimagining, three women must awaken before the killer silences them for good.
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Los Angeles is sweltering through Holy Week when a teenage hustler named Kiddy is murdered on Hollywood Boulevard in broad daylight. The investigation pulls Detective Joanna Steele into a conspiracy that reaches from Hollywood's shadows to the highest levels of power.
Mia More is on the verge of superstardom when Kiddy crosses her path. What begins as concern becomes something far more dangerous: love, responsibility, and a fierce protective instinct that pulls her back into a world she once escaped. To save him, she may have to risk everything... including her life.
Lana DeMille drifts through Los Angeles with a fractured memory and nowhere left to land. Somewhere in the gaps of what she's forgotten lies the truth about what happened to Kiddy-if she can piece together what she saw before the killer remembers her.
As the investigation tightens and the body count rises, the line between victim and predator blurs. In this dark, fierce reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, three women awaken to a truth someone will kill to keep buried-in a city where the most dangerous stories are the ones no one lives to tell.
Kevin Moore is the author behind Jack Kelly’s gripping paranormal adventures. His debut, The Book of Souls, earned an Amazon Editors’ Pick and Global Book Award Gold Medal, while The Book of Demons was named a BookLife Editors’ Pick. His 2026 releases include Pandora’s Box, The Lost Boys, and Waking Sleeping Beauty, a neo-noir thriller. Moore’s Christmas Stories: 7 Original Short Stories became an Amazon #1 bestseller, while Christmas Stories Volume II won Global Book Awards Gold and a Christlit Book Award. A lucid dreamer, certified yoga teacher, and Reiki practitioner, Moore brings spiritual depth to his storytelling.
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