The premise is - even by King standards - definitely out there. The potentially evil entity is, yes, a plant. A sort of ivy to be exact. The plant is sent by a disgruntled would be author to a publishing house that has originally accepted his book idea. However, after editor John Kenton receives the entire book and a collection of unsettling photos he contacts the police. Failing to find any prove of wrong doing, the police lets the matter go but Carlos, the man who sent the package, is understandable upset and out for revenge.
As if one potential madman, with some psychic assistance to boot, weren't enough...another wannabe author, recently escaped from an asylum also has a debt to settle with the small publishing house Zenith.
But the little plant sent by Carlos to cause mayhem actually empowers the small group of editors and - as soon as the plant takes hold - makes them better and potentially more successful at what they do. Of course, this being a King book (or part of one), there is the threat of horror just lurking around the corner.
The first taste of it comes when the two disgruntled authors break into the Zenith offices to lay low for a weekend before bringing the hammer down. When they run into each other, things comes to blow between the two and, with a little help from the thriving plant, neither makes it out alive.
And this is where we are left hanging....the bad guys dead, the publishing house on the brink of success (finally) and the plant just about to make things much more interesting.
....I really need this to continue. Soon-ish.
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