O' the tangled webs he weaved, when at first he did deceive . . . Sentenced to life at Stillwater Prison, Ella Thornton must tell her story to one person-prison psychologist, Elliott Foster. At eighteen, vulnerable, and confused, Ella's head was filled with promises of a happily ever after story book life. Even though, deep down inside of her, she felt it was wrong, Ella married Paynesville's extremely handsome and admired police officer, Bryce Thornton. Ella describes herself in her five year marriage as being the only prisoner in a concentration camp, trapped in a freaky shittin' horror movie life where she could never leave and no one could ever enter, ruled by the neurotic mind and heavy hands of the devil's spawn, her husband. Ella's story is of being deceived, imprisoned, tortured, abused, and her struggle for survival-her only way out.