The Valley of the Shadows — Diane Stevens

ESCAPE INTO TERROR

Lovely, talented Leslie Hammond thought she had escaped the ties that bound her to her former husband, Alan. Their marriage had been a nightmare of sensual subjugation and moral revulsion, and when at last Leslie found the strength to seek a divorce, she dreamed of a new life of freedom and happiness.

But now that dream was shattered into a thousand jagged pieces of fear and pain. Leslie had come to remote Red Rock Valley in the Rockies, a thousand miles from her New York home, light years away from her former life. Yet she had hardly checked into the hotel in this mountain resort when she saw a familiar face, was overpowered by a familiar emotion.

It was Alan, and from the moment he touched her she knew he could do with her whatever he wanted -- and what he wanted was evil beyond anything, he had ever demanded before…