In this spectacular New York Situations bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along such as a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes tales: what might happen if women disappeared through the world of guys?

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when females go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they’re awakened, if the gauze wrapping their systems is disturbed or violated, the ladies become about Sleeping Beauties: A Novel feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and turmoil is rare. One female, the secret “Eve Dark,” is immune system to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is definitely Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who should be slain?

Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men separate into warring factions, some wanted to eliminate Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their very own vengeance on fresh enemies. All use violence in a abruptly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary company is usually a woman’s jail, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.