MISERY PB

King s Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her – with relief, with joy. Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wants to get on to some real writing. That s when the car accident happens, and he wakes up in pain in a strange bed. But it isn t hospital. Annie Wilkes has pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs. The good news is that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news is that she has long been Paul s Number One Fan. And when she finds out what Paul had done to Misery, she doesn t like it. She doesn t like it at all. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he s writing to stay alive.