In this spectacular collaboration between father and son, Stephen King and Owen King tell high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? All over the world, something happens to women when they sleep: they become enveloped in a gauze-like cocoon. If they wake up, if the gauze surrounding their bodies is disturbed, the women become ferocious and astonishingly violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus spreads through a women's prison, affecting all inmates except one. Very soon, rumors spread about the mysterious Evie, who seems capable of sleeping—and waking. Is she a medical abnormality or a demon that must be put down? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primitive needs, fight against each other, while Dooling's sheriff, Lila Norcross, struggles just to stay awake. And the sleeping women are ready to open their eyes to an entirely new world...