Sleeping With Strangers: A Story of Sexsomnia

By MARLOW STEVENS

She wakes up satisfied.
But she never remembers.
Who was with her?
Vanessa has always been confident about sex.
It's her memory she can no longer trust.
It begins with something almost absurd. She wakes after a night alone feeling as though she's had extraordinarily satisfying sex.
Except there was nobody in her bed.
Then it happens again.
And again.
She wakes naked despite going to bed in pyjamas. High heels appear on her feet. Her body tells her something happened during the night - but her memory ends the moment she fell asleep.
Vanessa sets up a camera.
What she sees changes everything.
She may be experiencing sexsomnia, a parasomnia involving sexual behaviour during sleep, often with no memory of the episode afterwards.
But the camera reveals something even more disturbing.
Vanessa isn't always staying in bed.
She is getting dressed.
Leaving her house.
Going into The City.
Meeting men.
And sometimes sleeping with strangers she cannot remember the following morning.
At first Vanessa desperately wants a medical explanation.
Then the messages begin.
Someone knows what happens when she sleeps.
Someone knows about the missing hours.
Someone has been watching.
And someone has discovered that if Vanessa cannot remember what happened the night before, she cannot easily prove when she's being lied to about it.
As Vanessa tries to separate genuine episodes from deliberate manipulation, every new discovery creates another question.
Which encounters really happened?
Which ones did she choose?
Who has been inside her bedroom?
And how much can another person make you believe when your own memory cannot contradict them?
Sleeping With Strangers is a provocative psychological suspense novel about sexsomnia, desire, memory, consent, surveillance and the frightening vulnerability created when your sleeping self has a life your waking self cannot remember.
She knows what her body is capable of.
She just doesn't know who else knows.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG69CM33
• ISBN13: 9798194305315
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"