The Rapture

Girl Interrupted meets The Dead Zone in this utterly compelling dramaabout a paranoia that starts inside one murderously insane teenage girls headand then grows... » 

Girl Interrupted meets The Dead Zone in this utterly compelling dramaabout a paranoia that starts inside one murderously insane teenage girls headand then grows to encompass the whole world. With gothic intensity Liz Jensenconjures the unnerving relationship between Gabrielle a physically andemotionally damaged therapist and her patient sixteenyearold Bethany whois incarcerated in a British psychiatric hospital for the brutal murder of hermother. Delving deep into the psyche of her fascinating manipulative patientGabrielle is confronted by alarming coincidences between the girls paranoiddisaster fantasies and actual incidents of geological and meteorologicalupheaval. Coincidences her professionalism tells her to ignorebut which herheart cannot. As Bethanys warnings continue to prove accurate beyond flukeand she begins to offer scientifically precise hints of a final worldalteringcataclysm Gabrielle is confronted with a series of devastating choices. Onlyto discover that in a world on the brink of apocalypse belief is as preciousand as dangerousas life itself.... «