Rayne is still at remote stately home Morton’s Keep, her refuge from the city life she hated so much. But there are still glimpses of something creepy and sinister in the house, especially when a mysterious new housekeeper takes over. Then – suddenly and shockingly – a violent murder rocks the town of Marcle Lees, and Rayne’s life is turned upside down all over again. The evil hasn’t disappeared. It’s been growing stronger…

Praise for Possessed:

“Beautifully written, deeply frightening.” The Telegraph

“This is about as spine-tingling as a novel gets.” The Daily Mirror

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407134666

Date published

October 4th, 2012

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Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.0; Upper years; 11.0 points

Other details

368 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Kate Cann

When Kate was a child, she wanted to be a witch. Her first foray into writing was a collection of spells full of rats’ tails and bats’ wings. Kate says, “At thirteen, I began keeping a lurid diary, full of adoration or loathing, depending on who I was writing about. I used my later diaries for the DIVING IN trilogy.

I never thought ‘I want to be a writer’, but I loved books and writing. When my two kids came along I set up as a freelance copy-editor and worked from home. By chance I got given some teenage books to edit, and I hated the way they treated sexual relationships: they were either full of gloom and doom, or were gushy, unrealistic candyfloss. So I got bitten by the ‘I can do better than this’ bug, and started writing. About a year after that, DIVING IN was accepted for publication.”

When I ran out of material from my diaries and memories, I realized my daughter and son were teenagers, and started eavesdropping on them. “