Stranglehold - jack ketchum

Lydia McCloud meets Arthur Danse at a wedding party in Plymouth, N.

, and she thinks hes a man she could grow to love.

Arthur sees things differently.

In Lydia, he sees the sort of woman people always want to protect.

He decides hes going to show her she wouldnt always be protected.

Once their only child, Robert, is born, Arthurs behavior worsens.

When the courts become involved, the nightmare really begins.

This scathing novel is an indictment of a justice system that makes a mockery of its very name.