Trapped — Freda Lightfoot

I was engaged with the story from page one. She piles horror on horror â€" rape, torture, sexual humiliation, incest, suicide - but she keeps you reading!
Historical Novels Review Nov 2009 on House of Angels

a fascinating, richly detailed setting with a dramatic plot brimming with enough scandal, passion, and danger for a Jackie Collins' novel.
Booklist on Hostage Queen

This is a book I couldn't put down . . . a great read!
South Wales Evening Post on The Girl From Poorhouse Lane

‘I'm lying sobbing on the floor, head reeling, unable to believe that my husband of just four weeks has knocked me flying.'

Carly Stanton is a lucky girl. Newly married to the man of her dreams, a beautiful home with her family close by and with a job she adores. But all is not quite as it seems. Oliver Stanton may be charming and utterly gorgeous with dark good looks and captivating blue-grey eyes, as well as being successful and financially secure, but once the ring is on her finger, Carly discovers there's a darker side to his nature.

He is possessive and controlling, sapping her confidence so that she feels as if she is living on a knife edge, her nerves in shreds. Carly knows that she desperately needs help before he destroys her. But who can she turn to? Not her family who think he is Mr Wonderful. As Oliver's cruelty escalates, can Carly find a way out of the marriage trap?