Empathy - Ellen Steiber

The fifth in a stylish new series of novelizations of classic episodes from the phenomenally successful cult TV show The X-Files created by Chris Carter.

FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the FBI want handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. and panics. The cases filed under 'X'.

'Nobody's gonna spoil us. ' Under the cover of night, teenager Amy Jacobs is kidnapped from her bedroom. At the exact same time, Lucy Householder, a waitress 20 miles away, faints - her uniform covered in the victim's blood. Lucy - a former kidnapping victim herself - begins to experience everything that is happening to the young girl at the hands of her deranged captor. Although FBI Agent Scully has reson to suspect that Lucy is a fraud, her partner, Mulder, thinks there may be a psychic link between the two victims, and tries to persuade Lucy to help him find the young girl. But is the woman truly channeling - or is she simply part of a twisted kidnapping plot?