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When Jesse Burlingame finds herself in the uncomfortable situation of being handcuffed to a bed in their remote cottage with her husband lying dead on the floor, the physical strain turns out to be less than the mental strain of figuring out how she got there - no, how she really got there.

This book evoked a more visceral feeling of disgust in me than any book has, except maybe for Misery. It started slow, and a few chapters in, I was thinking, (view spoiler)[ I really hope the whole book doesn't just consist of her internal monologue (actually, dialogues) while she's stuck on the bed. (hide spoiler)] Well, it did, and it turned out far better than I could have expected. The vivid description of (view spoiler)[ her dad assaulting her as a child (hide spoiler)] made me feel physically ill, but I couldn't stop reading.

I stopped short of rating this five stars, because I think it was missing something. Maybe it couldn't have had that something, because of the way that the book is set up. But still, I give it a very positive four stars and will recommend it to anyone I know who is sick enough to enjoy this kind of dark and twisted story.