The first section is from Tegan's point of view. She is in her early 20's and she is 35 weeks pregnant with a rich guy's baby. He ended up raping her and she is on the way to see her brother. She is driving through a blizzard and she crashes her car. She gets saved by this gruff guy named Hank who takes her to his house because his wife Polly is a nurse. They put her in the basement and she is immeidately suspicious but she cant leave because she is having contractions and her ankle is broken.
Tegan is such a whiny and paranoid brat.
The second section is all from Polly's perspective and throughout the first part we were painted a picture of Hank as an abusive and manipulative husband. We saw a bruise on Polly and Tegan thought that Hank did it. With this section, we learn that Polly is mentally ill and barren. We learn about the incident that made her lose her job as a nurse and how she is planning to take Tegan baby away from her. Hank is the complete opposite of what Tegan thinks and he is actually the one being manipulated by Polly. Polly is trying to keep Tegan in the basement till she has the baby. She is now lying to the police who are looking for Tegan.
Tegan stabs Polly with a fork and Hank has threatened Tegan. Polly told Hank that she wants Tegan's baby and Hank is trying to get her to call her shrink. Tegan is trying to figure out ways to get out but she is doing a real shit job because everytime she moves, she cries about the pain in her leg and if she would have let Polly take the boot off, then her circumstances would be much different. Polly is really going over the deep end and losing control. She fucked up majorly when she invited Tegan's brother into the house and then mentioned him to Tegan.
Hank ends up finally taking Tegan to the hospital because Polly has become a real lunatic. She got out of bed one night and tried to break Tegan's kneecap. Tegan has a nasty infection in her leg because she refused to let Polly remove the shoe. Polly flips when she learns that Tegan is gone and she goes to the hospital to kill Tegan so she doesn't rat out Hank and her and have to go to jail. When Polly gets to the hospital, she sees a man trying to inject Tegan's IV with a syringe. It turns out to be Tegan's brother and all of this mess comes to light about how he was blaming his sister for his career ending accident and he was in business deals with the man who raped her and he didn't want to lose that deal, so he needed to take action.
The end of the book really was a plot twist because the prologue makes you think throughout the book that it is out two main female characters, but it is really some side characters.
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