Venus Trap

<p>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, shes believed that nothing could ever be as bad again.</p><p>She was wrong.</p><p>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 hes creepy and politely tells him a thanks but no thanks.</p><p>But Claudio has no intention of letting her go.</p><p>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 Claudioa &quote;or he will kill her. </p><p>Claudio, it turns out, is a man with nothing left to lose.</p><p><i>The Venus Trap</i> tackles the emotional impact of divorce, the perils of modern dating and the age-old powers of lust and obsession.</p>