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The Occupant: The Devil Doesn't Need Your Soul. Just Your Doubt.
Paperback
Series: Carrion Press
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The devil doesn't need your soul. Just your doubt.
Dr. Nora Callahan is a psychiatrist and committed atheist practicing in Boston. When a young woman named Sela Morrow is referred after a severe breakdown, Nora expects a textbook case. Dissociative identity disorder, maybe psychotic features. Treatable. Manageable.
Except Sela knows things she shouldn't. Private details about Nora's life. Thoughts Nora hasn't spoken aloud. Her face seems to shift in peripheral vision - two expressions at once, like a double-exposed photograph. Other patients in the practice begin behaving strangely after sharing the waiting room with her.
A 450-year-old demonological text and a retired Jesuit scholar reveal what Nora's training never prepared her for: something ancient has taken up residence inside her patient. Something that reads minds, changes thoughts, and causes love. Something that has been doing this for centuries - and the rational observers who investigated it never survived.
Now Nora must confront an entity that weaponizes the very doubt she's built her life on. Her clinical detachment. Her refusal to believe. The tools that made her a great psychiatrist are exactly what make her the perfect target.
The Occupant is a slow-burn horror novel about faith, doubt, and what happens when the mind you've spent your career studying turns out to be someone else's home.
For fans of The Exorcist, Hereditary, and Case 39.
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