In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violentIn the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep - and wake Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awakeAnd the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogetherThe first hardback print run of SLEEPING BEAUTIES will have FOUR secret hidden-on-the-board covers featuring enchanting foiled illustrations The one you receive will be random, but all are jaw-droppingly beautiful