The Red Road to Hades / Starshow Publications (ePub)

Not all roads lead to Paradise. This story is based on true events.

Imagine your life moving in a gulley. You are not getting ahead but you are not falling behind either. You analyze the situation and decide to move to a new locale; a place that will offer new opportunity and new excitement. Perhaps even a new romance.

This is the story of a retired gentleman from New York who yearns to improve his life on many levels. He meets a lady on Craig's List who offers all the things he desires. She is a beautiful redhead; a business owner who is smart, funny, and living in a part of the world he has considered for his new habitat. They engage in lively chats, by both email and telephone. She finally invites him to visit her in Kentucky, where she lives and works.

Deciding to take a chance, he agrees to make a trip to meet her face-to-face. Their meeting is absolute magic. They have so many common interest, he feels like he has met his soul-mate in life. The days together are filled with love and laughter as they thoroughly enjoy each others company

But it is in the bedroom where the real fireworks happen.

Even though neither of them are 'spring chickens', their sexual responses to each other can rival couples half their age. They move in together, starting a new chapter in their lives. Only one problem exists.

The lady is a black widow in disguise.

The story now becomes a voyage into perdition. Suffering at the hands of his sadistic lover is only the beginning. Physical and emotional abuse from a corrupt judicial system may lead to his death. In the face of overwhelming odds, the central character fights on to save his life, his honor and maybe his sanity. Through the journey, the reader will come to see how one man used every ounce of his being to survive.

The Red Road to Hades offers a look at domestic abuse from the male point of view and is a 'must read' for anyone considering an Internet-Based relationship. Winner - 2016 The Authors Show competition.