A Long, Long Sleep

the long version

Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically-induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten sub-basement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew.Now, her parents and her first love are long dead, and Rose hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a fr