Editorial Director Vicky Blunden has acquired World All Language rights in a new psychological thriller from author S.J. King. While You Sleep will publish in ebook, paperback and audio in May 2026.

Eve is a drained single parent to a distant teen, consumed by financial worries and permanently exhausted. Or she was, until she started taking RESTLESS™. Now she finds herself gardening at dawn, doing yoga before work, tackling the boxes from her divorce, and rebuilding her relationship with her daughter. But when she begins experiencing strange lapses in judgement and memory loss, the drug begins to seem less like a miracle and more like a threat. What has she been doing that she doesn’t remember? And what price is she willing to pay to keep this new life?

King says,

“I’m so happy to be working with Vicky and the Storm team again on my third psychological thriller. Vicky’s editorial support is fantastic and I love how she champions my writing! This book was inspired by talking to friends who all had different levels of exhaustion and a sense of ‘needing to do more’. As someone who takes daily medication herself, I wanted to write a story of how a pill offers both hope and risks, and from that Eve’s experiences began to unravel in my mind…”

Blunden says,

“I’m incredibly excited about this new book which had me gripped from the first page. S.J. explores a hugely relatable and timely issue through the perspective of an exhausted single mother trying her best to juggle working with the demands of parenting her increasingly distant teenage daughter. It’s so easy to imagine yourself in Eve’s position and it’s a book that makes the reader wonder, would I take this drug if I had the chance? I always get chills reading S.J.’s always deeply immersive, super-tense storytelling and I know readers are going to find this book as impossible to put down as I did.”

SJ King is a writer of dark, literary psychological thrillers, including her debut Where You Belong and Lauren Is Missing, which unpack complex family relations, multigenerational trauma, and weave in modern dilemmas, innovation and technology, and the power of exploiting inequality. For more information, connect with S.J. on her website or on Instagram (@sjking_writes).