Shadow of the Lynx
I read this when I was a kid and it gave me VERY WEIRD KID IDEAS.\xa0 Now I'm returning to it and it is... even more fucked up than I expected?\xa0 Nora is one of those freshly orphaned smart Vicky Holt girls.\xa0 Charles Herrick, aka the Lynx, is a... brilliant sex monster?\xa0 It's hard to explain.\xa0 There's another dude too.\xa0 And a whole other family.\xa0 Is this even a romance novel?\xa0 Is this maybe a thriller?\xa0 I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE.
This is going to be okay for most people but there's definitely an extremely controlling man, there's an attempted rape that ends up with the woman safe but the man's brains splashed all over the outback, there's a good bit of murdering but mostly, you know, the genteel kind.\xa0 No sex at all, overtly.
Can we appreciate this cover for a minute, though?\xa0 I love a good "women running away from houses" Gothic cover, but this one is really a fine example.