Touch by Claire North

Catherine Webb is a prolific British author; she has published eight young adult novels under her own name, six fantasy novels for adults under the name Kate Griffin, and eight science-fiction novels as Claire North.

It was under her Claire North persona that I first discovered her time travel novel,The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August .

I've just finished reading her second novel under that pen name - Touch .

Touch is the story of ghosts who are able to enter the bodies of human hosts by use of the sense of touch. The ghosts must inhabit these bodies in order to survive, completely taking over the host's consciousness. The human host has no awareness of the possession, and when the ghost moves on, the former host has no memory of the time he/she was possessed.

Critics have described the book as electrifying and mesmerizing. I agree.

As usual, I have no spoilers.