Maternal Instinct

A Romantic getaway turns into a nightmare on the open highway. A normal woman is held captive, torn from her husband and deposited into the seedy underworld of illegal pornography and snuff films, a world she never knew existed. Now she is in the fight for two lives: hers and the child she and her husband had been trying to conceive. And she will do anything to escape. Anything...

From the Publisher

J. F. Gonzalez has created a novella that will keep readers gripping the pages a little harder. MATERNAL INSTINCT is a tour-de-force of both horror and suspense -- a gateway into the underworld in which Gonzalez researched during the creation of this novella. This is perhaps one of the most intense novellas out there and shows why Gonzalez is considered by many to be the next big author in the horror genre.

About the Author

J. F. Gonzalez is the author of the novels Clickers (co-authored with Mark Williams), Conversion, and Shapeshifter. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies including Black October Magazine, The Best of Horrorfind, Unnatural Selection, The Asylum, among others. In addition to the four stories included in this volume, additional stories are collected in Old Ghosts and Other Revenants.Future projects include an anthology he is co-editing with Garrett Peck entitled Tooth and Claw, which should see publication in late 2002. He is currently working on a new novel and numerous short stories. He lives with his family in rural Pennsylvania.

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