Dollhouse

After escaping a violent attack by a stranger in her own home, Terry Artemiadis finds a newspaper clipping in her mailbox about a series of abductions, targeting women who fit her physical profile. The police sketch bears a strong resemblance to an ex-boyfriend who definitely had issues. But she recently learned that Bryan took his own life. Or did he?

Learning the identity of her stalker is only the beginning of Terry's problems. When she wakes up to find herself chained up and subject to the tidal pull of his fantasy world, meeting him halfway is the only way to lull her captor into feeling secure in his control of her, until she can choose her moment for a brutal act of violence against her tormentor.

Disclaimer: this book is set in the past. Not Regency England, no. The 1980s, in a suburb of Detroit. Also, it is not a romance. Seriously not. The antithesis of a romance. Call it an anti-romance. Like matter and antimatter.