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\u201cBest book of the year! Outrageous! Side-splitting! Fast-paced with delicious sarcasm and wit! You\u2019ve never read a story like this!\u201d Hollywood Report TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCharlotte Laws has smuggled a genuine ethic of compassion into this sci-fi thriller cum screwball comedy, and it works beautifully.\u201d Jacki Skole, author of Dogland: A Journey to the Heart of America\u2019s Dog Problem<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA cartwheeling plot with hilarious characters. Fast-paced, zany, sassy, and sarcastic. A philosophical masterpiece. Charlotte Laws does not disappoint.\u201d Bruce Goldberg, author of Exploring the Fifth Dimension<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA spirited protagonist must decide whether to save the world. First, she must decide what \u2018saving the world\u2019 means, and it\u2019s probably not what you think!\u201d Richard Riis, author<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 2035. Sleep Elite Enterprises (SEE) will insert a magnet in your head and\u2014congratulations\u2014you\u2019re an \u201celite.\u201d You can sleepwork. Crush your job, get sober, shed pounds, rake in the bucks\u2014all while your brain gets eight glorious hours of rest. Being an elite is cool. A quarter of the world is on the program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bess is a disgraced tabloid reporter, freshly fired. She is offered a job at a splashier paper if she can get some dirt on SEE. She takes the bait \u2026 What follows involves a haunted house, a severed finger, a vat of acid, and yikes \u2026 a gunman on her tail.                <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s Mom\u2014once a top scientist at SEE. Now she acts like a Stepford wife. Bess is baffled. Why would this accomplished woman go from making the world better \u2026 to making brownies and beds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With humor, self-deprecation, and lots of sarcasm, Bess unravels both mysteries. In the end, she faces the fact that she\u2014and only she\u2014must determine the fate of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Available in 2027 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local bookstore. <\/p>\n

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