Introduction
Despite ERA's impact on the American nuclear family, financial security is still a foremost factor in marital happiness. In our materialistic age, it is tempting for a wife to judge her husband according to her father's accomplishments. If Daddy made $40,000 at age 45, then hubbie should gross double that at age
This fallaciously ignorant judgment of one's mate has ripped apart more marriages than infidelity. Infidelity can be discreetly arranged, but vocal chastising can only be displayed as obdurate nagging, chiseling away at a husband's masculinity and sex drive. The husband's neglect is then the first link in a chain reaction often leading to divorce.
The heroine of The Captive Runaway by Edward Mitchell presents a glaring example of this sociological truism. Combine the elements of a husband's intense dislike for his father-in-law savage sadism and masochism, and you have the makings of a sensual nightmare that became Sherrie Turner's reality.
In the quiescent north country, behind the walls of a chalet, Sherrie is held captive in the murderous clutches of a madman and his lesbian accomplice who mastermind the disappearance of hapless runaways such as our heroine. How is she freed and who was the behind-the-scenes criminal who abetted in this treachery?
Turn the page and find out.
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