This novel explores the ways a master manipulator and abuser works, isolating his victim from her friends, toying with her emotions, and playing tricks designed to both unnerve her and make her think she’s going crazy. The difference is that in this story, those qualities show themselves for what they truly are: dangerous. This day in age, there are so many “romance” novels out there with a romantic interest who is gorgeous and charming, but intense and mysterious, and sensitive and vulnerable, but smotheringly possessive, just like Lee Brightman in this story. Encouraging her to confront her fears, he sparks unexpected hope and the possibility of love and a normal life.Īll those moments when I’d seen blue sky, when I’d seen that hint of freedom, I had still been in the cage. Then Stuart Richardson, her attractive new neighbor, moves in. Though her body has healed, the trauma of the past still haunts her. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape.įour years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine-now Cathy-is trying to build a new life in a new city. Disturbed by his increasingly erratic, controlling behavior, she tries to break it off turning to her friends for support, she’s stunned to find they don’t believe her. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true.īut what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon discovers that Lee’s dazzling blue eyes and blond good looks hide a dark, violent nature.

When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can’t believe her luck. Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Thrillerīuy on Amazon: Barnes & Noble, Book DepositoryĪs far as days to die were concerned, the longest day of the year was as good as any. Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

Into the darkest corner