EARTHBOUND BY RICHARD MATHESON
(Tor Books paperback, 224pp, $4.99)

David and Ellen Cooper return to the beachside community where they spent their honeymoon more than twenty years before in an attempt to rescue a marriage placed under severe stress by David’s infidelity. But whenever Ellen is away David is visited by Marianna, a young and beautiful woman to whom he is powerfully attracted. He finds himself drawn into a passionate affair, the very last thing that he needed in the circumstances. David’s undoubted love for Ellen plays in deadly counterpoint to his desire for Marianna, as their bouts of frantic lovemaking leave him drained physically and mentally, deepening the rift between husband and wife. Another resident of the area warns David that Marianna is not what she seems to be, and slowly doubt gives way to the realisation of who, or rather what, he has invited into his bed and life. (more…)

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