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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime Derringer Award Winner
eBook Description: When an abusive, but charismatic, movie star refuses to let his ex-wife go, she has no choice but to employ extreme, creative means to win her freedom and save her life.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Blue Murder Magazine, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2005

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Words: 3114
Reading time: 8-12 min.
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It wasn't enough that he terrorized me, that he'd beaten me badly enough to require hospitalization more than once--he had to debase me, too. He spit on me and called me a worm for cowering before him. Well, I knew precisely when the worm turned, I just didn't let on. It wasn't cowardice anymore, but a matter of choosing the right moment to assert myself.

In this life, timing is critical. Sometimes, it's even lethal.

My escort gestured for me to follow him. "Right this way, Mrs.... uh--"

"Bailey," I said.

Was he kidding? Who could forget that name, considering why we were there?

"Yes, Mrs. B--"