Beth McNamera is a survivor, but fate seems pitted against her. After her husband is murdered in an overgrown field, her daughter, Ashley, slips into a state of catatonia—a zombie like existence somewhere between life and death. Faced with mounting medical bills and foreclosure, she reluctantly accepts Bruce’s marriage proposal in a desperate bid to cure her daughter and moves to Shadow Valley. But her young boy, Mark, can sense the evil in Shadow Valley—and in Bruce.
Meanwhile, Father Doyle, a faithless priest who is haunted by the nightmare of his experience in the Rwandan genocide, is searching for a way out of the Catholic Church. When he teams up with Beth and agrees to perform a sham exorcism, both of them discover that a dark evil, someone or something, is laying a sinister path for them.
This thrilling debut novel by Damien Knight is at times terrifying, at times heartwarming, and ultimately redemptive. A suspenseful page turner that will have readers guessing until the very end whether anyone can survive THE POSSESSION.
