There's a fine line between love . . . and hate . . .
'She hated living this way, hated the chronic fear . . . She was afraid of almost everything, even the steps she'd have to take to escape.'
Early in her marriage, Grace Loring became the victim of her husband's sudden unpredictable rages. Taking her infant daughter and her few belongings, Grace fled to the safety of her brother's home.
Now Grace is a successful author, and accustomed to abused women writing to ask for advice. Grace is contacted by a troubled young woman named Stephanie Baine. In the course of their email correspondence, Stephanie reveals details of a nightmarish life: her terrifying abduction as a teenager; the escalating abuse she is now undergoing at the hands of her husband. Grace's advice is clear: Stephanie must do whatever is necessary to escape this madman.
After several weeks of intensive exchange, the emails abruptly stop, and Grace begins to fear the worst for Stephanie. Then the emails resume, and what Grace comes to learn casts doubt on everything she believed about this woman.
Who is Stephanie Baine? Is she really a young woman in danger, or is something else - something more sinister - going on?
