At her name-day celebration, an infant princess is cursed by the vengeful fairy Pernicia: she will prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an enchanted sleep on her twenty-first birthday. A young fairy named Katriona spirits the baby away to the remote village of Foggy Bottom and raises her under a different name, Rosie, as an ordinary village girl with an uncommon gift for talking to animals and healing horses. Rosie grows up entirely unsuited to the fate everyone else knows is coming for her, a mismatch the book leans into fully once her true identity can no longer be kept quiet. Robin McKinley's retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources