When Gwen Bailey marries Norman Starnes, she counts herself lucky to land the most eligible bachelor in town; years later, she realizes she never really knew him at all and becomes his unwilling accomplice.

Years after discovering the horrifying truth, Cindy is still haunted by memories of the night she decided not to kill her husband, Bobby, in his sleep.

When Debra Davis' husband excoriates her for refusing to experiment sexually, she thought there was something wrong with her, never suspecting her husband's perversions are signs of something evil deep inside him.

Teenager Cindy Taylor's world is shattered by the sudden death of her father; while police say he died of a heart attack, Taylor will discover the cause of her father's death is just one of the deadly secrets her mother had been hiding from her.

Shelly Lietz has been afraid of her son ever since he was four years old, and her fear intensifies and grows more crippling as he gets older and more violent, turning her into a prisoner in her own home.

Melissa Holland begins to realize she's in mortal danger after marrying her high school sweetheart, Michael Overstreet.