Lundy Bancroft enables readers to see inside the minds of men who control, bully, physically and emotionally injure, and in extreme cases kill the women who love them. He exposes the excuses and myths these men have hidden behind for too long, and gives women the tools they need to either improve or leave their relationships and end the destructive cycle of abuse. Book jacket.

In the 1850s, Hunter Bell, a former minister, had forsaken God after his wife died in childbirth, and tried to make a fortune in Utah's mining towns as a card shark.

At twenty-seven, having fled an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Peterman figures she has nowhere to go but up. Quaint, historic New Bern, Connecticut, seems as good a place as any to start fresh. With a part-time job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop and budding friendships, Ivy feels hopeful for the first time in ages. But when a popular quilting TV show is taped at the quilt shop, Ivy's unwitting appearance...

A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.