Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.

The Enlightenment Project

ebook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available
Cutting-edge science meets demonic possession: the long-awaited new supernatural thriller from award-winning author Lynn Hightower.


"Sensitive characterizations match the imaginative plot. Readers will compulsively turn the pages to see how it all ends" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review


Have you ever known anyone who survived being possessed? You do now. You've met me.


Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home, with his beloved wife Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who's a very good girl. But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon - and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived. Now, Noah works at the cutting of edge of medical science and religion, researching the effects of spirituality on the brain. His current research study - The Enlightenment Project - promises breakthrough treatments for depression, addiction and mental illness, and preliminary results are astounding. But after a late-night emergency surgery, Noah returns to his office to find Father Perry waiting for him, with a terrible warning. The Enlightenment Project may not be closing the door to the darkness at all . . . but instead letting it in.


Demonic possession is now a recognized psychiatric condition, and the number of exorcist priests in the US has quadrupled in the last decade. As well as being a thrilling read, THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT is an intelligent and fascinating view into the complex worlds of both the medical and the supernatural.

|Renowned neurosurgeon Noah Archer has a dark secret. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon, and barely survived. Now, Noah works at the cutting of edge of medical science and religion, determined to find answers for his childhood trauma. The Enlightenment Project is his life's work. But he's making a terrible mistake ...
  • Creators

  • Series

  • Publisher

  • Release date

  • Formats

  • Languages

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 1, 2013
      Horror fans will best appreciate this solid paranormal thriller from Shamus Award–winner Hightower (Satan’s Lambs). Recently divorced Olivia James is preparing to leave California with her eight-year-old daughter, Teddy, for her hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., when she receives a phone call—from her brother, Chris, who has just died. Chris, who says he “had to pay the piper,” warns Olivia that the “Mister Man”— their childhood name for the bogeyman who carried off their sister, Emily, 25 years earlier—is after her. Once Olivia and Teddy are settled in their new home, a “somebody” Teddy calls Duncan Lee starts to spook the girl amid such mysterious manifestations as inexplicably falling boxes and ceiling plaster. Olivia gets help from a visiting friend, her ex-husband, and her former cop boyfriend, but that’s not enough to prevent things from turning deadly. Will Olivia be able to save Teddy from an evil entity named Decan Ludde? Few will be surprised by the upbeat outcome.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 31, 2022
      American neurosurgeon Noah Archer, the narrator of this superb supernatural medical thriller from Hightower (Even in Darkness), hopes his research project to create the experience of enlightenment by stimulating the brain’s electrical impulses will lead to wide-ranging health benefits for people across the world suffering from addiction, as well as chronic depression and other mental illnesses. Then Fr. Perry Cavanaugh, an old friend who saved Archer’s sanity when the future doctor was possessed by a demon as a child, shocks Archer with the news that Henry Mandeville, a subject of the project who’s been cured of a fatal brain tumor, attributes this miracle to the devil. Cavanaugh fears that something about Archer’s methods for modifying brain functions has had the unintended consequence of making those the surgeon treats susceptible to the same demonic possession that almost drove Archer to suicide. Archer must team up with the priest to understand exactly what happened to Mandeville and prevent the darkness he experienced as a child from infecting his own family. Sensitive characterizations match the imaginative plot. Readers will compulsively turn the pages to see how it all ends. Agent: Matt Bialer, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

Languages

  • English

Loading