He Will Have the World, David-Jack Fletcher

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He Will Have the World
By David-Jack Fletcher — Paperback, November 6, 2025

What if everyone you knew was an imposter?

Charlie is certain an invasion has begun. He can feel it—see it—even if no one else can. Not the psychiatrists who dismiss his warnings. Not his husband, who worries he’s slipping away again. But Charlie knows the truth: something is replacing people, wearing their lives like borrowed skin. He doesn’t know how. He doesn’t know why. He only knows they’re coming for him next.

When a lightning strike hits the plane mid-flight, Charlie is the only one who sees the creature enter the cabin. And he’s the only one who sees what happens afterward. It moves through the passengers, slipping inside them, jumping between them, hiding behind familiar faces. Anyone could be infected. Anyone could already be gone.

Trapped at 30,000 feet with no one who believes him—and no escape—Charlie races to expose the monster before it consumes everyone aboard. But with his grip on reality beginning to crack, he can’t trust the passengers… and he can’t trust himself.

Is Charlie the only one who can stop the creature?
Or are the doctors right—and the invasion is happening only inside his mind?

A tense, mind-bending psychological horror from Aurealis-nominated author David-Jack Fletcher, He Will Have the World blurs the line between paranoia and truth in a claustrophobic, heart-pounding descent into fear. Perfect for fans of Falling, The Thing, and queer-centered suspense that pushes sanity to the breaking point.

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