Possession

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Fabian Hightower stands at his mother's bedside. "Go back to sleep, Mum," he says. And she does, smiling in anticipation of the time they'll spend together in the morning.
But that morning never comes. Instead, Alex Hightower wakes to the news that her only son was killed in a head-on automobile accident while driving home from a school vacation in France. At first Alex is confused and uneasily tries to convince herself that Fabian's appearance was merely a dream, or perhaps a premonition. But then strange events start to occur. The words "Help me, Mother" flash across her computer screen. Fabian's face suddenly appears on newly developed photographs. Odd noises and smells invade her house. Objects move by themselves.
Frightened, she turns to Fabian's best friend for help, a cold and distant stranger who hints about a Fabian bearing no resemblance to the son Alex thought she knew. Finally, in desperation, she consults a medium. Shaken, he tells her, "Fabian wants to come back."... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Fabian Hightower stands at his mother's bedside. "Go back to sleep, Mum," he says. And she does, smiling in anticipation of the time they'll spend together in the morning.
But that morning never comes. Instead, Alex Hightower wakes to the news that her only son was killed in a head-on automobile accident while driving home from a school vacation in France. At first Alex is confused and uneasily tries to convince herself that Fabian's appearance was merely a dream, or perhaps a premonition. But then strange events start to occur. The words "Help me, Mother" flash across her computer screen. Fabian's face suddenly appears on newly developed photographs. Odd noises and smells invade her house. Objects move by themselves.
Frightened, she turns to Fabian's best friend for help, a cold and distant stranger who hints about a Fabian bearing no resemblance to the son Alex thought she knew. Finally, in desperation, she consults a medium. Shaken, he tells her, "Fabian wants to come back."
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Now, haunted by Fabian's pleas at every turn, Alex is consumed by her harrowing search for answers. As she unearths the terrifying secrets of her son's bizarre past, she comes to realize that her own safety and even her life are in jeopardy. While there's still time, she must free herself from Fabian's spirit—before it takes possession of her own.
Peter James was born in England in 1948. He has worked in the United States, Canada, and England producing films— among them the award-winning Dead of Night—and has written three previous thrillers. Possession is the result of his own experiences of the supernatural. Peter James currently lives with his wife in Hove, Sussex. Vissza