Split

No man had ever touched me like that. My desire for him was so sudden and all-consuming I was frightened for myself. For the first time in my life, I thought, I am known. This man sees something in me he can reach, and I will never escape him. And it seemed I would always be on the run, always fleeing the Jakes of this world because they have the power to devour me. I'm enthralled as much as I'm scared by that. I will always run from them and yet I will always seek them out. I was beginning to understand what had brought me to this place. A visit to Heddlestone, a remote village in the Yorkshire moors, changes librarian, Kate Carter's life. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge and when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum, she flees London and her boyfriend in order to take it. Jake, the strange and beautiful curator and puppeteer, draws her into his secluded sensual world, and before long she's sharing his bed, going deeper into new and at times frightening explorations of love and lust. But Kate is also seduced by Eddie, Jake's brother, and his wild Ukrainian wife, and she becomes tangled in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men, Kate moves closer to uncovering the truth behind the secrets of Heddlestone, ever sensing danger but not knowing whether the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality. Previous Praise for Kristina Lloyd's Asking For Trouble: 'Lloyd's page-turner is a flawlessly written excursion into a world of erotic humiliation ...' Romantic Times, 4 frac12; StarsLloyd, Kristina is the author of 'Split' with ISBN 9780352341549 and ISBN 0352341548.