The Venus Trap

Jo Atkins sixteenth year was disastrous: she lost her dad, was assaulted by a stranger, and then had her heart broken. For the last twenty-five years, she s believed that nothing could ever be as bad again.

She was wrong.

Now, still smarting from her recent divorce, pretty, self-effacing Jo finally gathers the courage to enter the dating scene. She meets Claudio, whom she vaguely remembers from her youth, but after a few dates decides he s creepy and politely tells him thanks but no thanks .

But Claudio has no intention of letting her go.

Instead of never seeing him again, Jo wakes up sick and terrified, handcuffed to her own bed. She is given a week to prove her love for Claudio or he will kill her.

Claudio, it turns out, is a man with nothing left to lose.

"The Venus Trap" tackles the emotional impact of divorce, the perils of modern dating and the age-old powers of lust and obsession."