'Sleeping Beauties'

'Sleeping Beauties' is a novel by Stephen King and his son, Owen King, released on September 26, 2017.

In a small town in Appalachia, women who fall asleep are tightly wrapped in an ethereal substance resembling a cocoon. When someone wakes them up, when the material that surrounds them is disturbed or broken, the sleeping women enter into a wild fury and become madly aggressive; asleep, they move to another world—a world in which harmony reigns and conflicts are rare. 

The only person resistant to the blessing, or curse, of the unusual coma is the mysterious Evie. Is she a medical anomaly that needs to be examined? Or maybe a demon that needs to be killed? The men, abandoned and all on their own, are giving in to their more primitive impulses and divide into hostile factions; some want to kill Evie, others to save her. Some use chaos to take revenge on old or new enemies. In a world suddenly dominated by men, everyone is resorting to violence.

The book was nominated for the Bram Stoker award. In April 2017, Anonymous Content bought the rights to the television adaptation of the novel.