The Captives
Ann Taylor
PROLOGUE.
What turns a man into a monster?
What circumstances or combination of circumstances can cause a decent, ordinary, attractive young male like Stanley Scott into a kidnapper, a rapist, a captor of female flesh, a killer?
The four women came out of the snow to Stan‘s isolated home, lost, helpless, appealing, their car stuck in a ditch. Without conscious plan or motive, he imprisoned them in a secret room, prepared to take his pleasure of them one by one at the point of a gun.
By the time he began to question his behavior, to consider its almost inevitable consequences, it was too late to undo his crime. One member of his unhappy harem was dead, another raped, the remaining two filled with passionate hatred, thinking only of escape and vengeance.
Why had he done it?
What turns a man into a monster?
What circumstances or combination of circumstances can cause a decent, ordinary, attractive young male like Stanley Scott into a kidnapper, a rapist, a captor of female flesh, a killer?
The four women came out of the snow to Stan‘s isolated home, lost, helpless, appealing, their car stuck in a ditch. Without conscious plan or motive, he imprisoned them in a secret room, prepared to take his pleasure of them one by one at the point of a gun.
By the time he began to question his behavior, to consider its almost inevitable consequences, it was too late to undo his crime. One member of his unhappy harem was dead, another raped, the remaining two filled with passionate hatred, thinking only of escape and vengeance.
Why had he done it?