The Basement

Bailey Litchfield goes missing the night before she leaves for the Peace Corps. An old man abducted her after becoming obsessed with her uncanny resemblance to his late wife Catherine. He and his late wife never had children before she died though they wanted children and even tried for children. He views Bailey as his last ditch effort to procreate with Catherine. She is set to be his basement surrogate with the promise that she will be released once his child is born. Things don't go smoothly and after months of forcefully inseminating Bailey, the old man grows impatient and takes in another hostage. Ethan Peters. An OBGYN intern from the hospital in the town closest to the old man's property. At gun point, Ethan is forced to help the old man procreate with Bailey. How will Ethan and Bailey escape the clutches of the old man... read to find out.

🚨This book shows depictions of rape but it does NOT by any means glorify it or romanticize it. This is a horror book where two hostages fall I love while trying to escape NOT a hostage and their captor🚨