Bad Men, Worse Girls

Caroline works at PunishDash as an abuse intervention specialist, and in her line of work she has never lost. She has put down every abuser handed to her. At a blind date she meets Richard, who is pleasant and careful and gives away nothing, and she falls for him. They marry quickly. Then Richard starts on the things he has done to women before her, the small controls first, then the rest, on the assumption that his wife is like the others. Caroline puts him on the floor. What follows is Richard on the receiving end of the exact behaviour he built his life around, from a woman who does this professionally and now has a personal reason, and Richard trying to work out how the marriage he arranged for himself turned into this.