The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But in
this mysterious shadow world how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019 Anna Ogilvy
was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then one night
she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep
sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome' a rare functional psychosomatic
disorder. The tabloid press dubs her 'Sleeping Beauty'. Fast forward to the present day. Dr.
Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related
homicides. As a consultant at The Abbey a sleep clinic based in London's infamous Harley
Street he has studied patients who are held on murder charges but they have no memory of
their crimes. As Anna shows the first signs of stirring Benedict must determine what really
happened that night and whether or not she should be held criminally responsible for her
actions when she finally wakes up. Only she knows the truth about that night but only he knows
how to discover it--
