Sleeping Beauties

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that ΓÇ£barrels along like a freight trainΓÇ¥ (Publishers Weekly),Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and near it might be nowsomething happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakenedif the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violatedthe women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another placea better placewhere harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One womanthe mysterious ΓÇ£Eve BlackΓÇ¥ is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandonedleft to their increasingly primal urgesthe men divide into warring factionssome wanted to kill Evesome to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a womanΓÇÖs prisonSleeping Beauties is a wildly provocativegloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.