Trusting the Enemy

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.

When Callista experiences an apparently paranormal event at the Okehampton Castle ruins and stops a gunman, she becomes a media sensation, but the effect on her life is dramatic. Soon videos of the event appear on social media and quickly go viral, and the intense media attention turns Callista's life into a nightmare. Her privacy is suddenly non-existent, and at the school where she teaches science, rumours spread like wildfire. Her ex-boyfriend, controlling and narcissistic, tries to rekindle their relationship, ghost hunters try to enlist her help, media stake out her flat, and a reporter tries to trick her. Cosmo, a geologist and spokesman for a group of sceptics, publicly states as his opinion that extrasensory perception is a myth and that the event has been misrepresented or exaggerated possibly with the aim of gaining personal attention. But a TV chat show unexpectedly throws Callista and Cosmo together in a situation nobody could have foreseen, and they find they must adjust their perceptions of each other. How do two people, one calm and one seriously claustrophobic, who feel they are poles apart, cope for an hour and a half in total darkness in a stalled lift? And can they handle the consequences? When secrets from Callista's past become public knowledge the attention focused on her becomes unbearable, so when she is offered sanctuary and help from a man she barely knows she  takes a leap into the dark and hopes for the best.