“I could eat you alive, May, and I would if you gave me half a chance.”
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Mired in poverty and struggling to raise her daughter, May feels much older than thirty. She's on the brink of running off into the night. Or she would be, if she could muster up the courage. A chance meeting at a coffee shop throws her into the life of Ian Shane, a former schoolmate who's made a name for himself. He offers, quite out of the blue, to finance May's escape from her manchild husband. But there's something more to Ian, something that flits back behind the blacks of his eyes whenever she peers too close. It wants to own her, to give her what she truly wants: Someone or something to strip away her need to choose, to force her into sweet submission. The man behind Ian Shane's tremulous mask wants to devour May, and she finds herself drawn nearer and nearer to his open jaws.