Misery

Misery is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1987. Paul Sheldon, author of a best-selling series of a victorian-era romance heroine Misery Chastain. Since 1974, he has finished the first drafts of every one of his books in the same room at the Boulderado Hotel in Colorado. He is determined to finish his new novel, Fast Cars. After he has completed his manuscript, he has an impulse (fueled by three bottles of champagne) to drive to L.A. rather than back to his home in New York. In his inebriated state he is unaware that the Colorado Western Slope is going to be hit with one of the biggest snowstorms of the year in a few hours. Determined to drive through this, he loses control of his car, drives off the road, and tumbles down the steep hill, falling unconscious. Paul is rescued from the car wreck by a woman named Annie Wilkes, an experienced nurse who lives nearby. As Paul waves in and out of consciousness, he hears a voice (Annie's) telling him that she's his number one... full article at wikipedia