Stephen King 
Rose Madder 

The #1 national bestseller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is one of Stephen Kings most engrossing horror novels. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated…fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming (Publishers Weekly).Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he wont find her. Shell worry about all the rest later. Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. Meeting Bill is one; and getting an apartment is another. Still, its hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. Hes very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind. Fixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder. Riveting, engrossing…packed with suspense (People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. Rose Madder is an eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel (The Washington Post).