Sleep On A Bed Of Nails brings together three fast-moving works of speculative political suspense, each centered on a woman confronting a system that has turned an essential condition of life into a means of control. In Expiration Date, a soldier searching for her missing grandmother encounters a government law that fixes the end of human life at age seventy-two and a secret project with consequences far beyond her family. In Dam It, a young woman in a fractured future must protect her community when a shared river is deliberately blocked and water becomes a weapon. In Off The Books, a naturalized Army Ranger's loyalty is tested when escalating abuses against immigrants strike close to home. Across all three stories, power, family, survival, and conscience collide as obedience becomes harder-and more dangerous-to maintain.