Erowolf

Lohdi is a single troll living the bachelor life. He's just purchased his first house, a nice little out-of-the-way place in a quiet neighborhood under a bridge. He works hard, hangs out with his friends...but he also cherishes his privacy. The last thing he needs is someone disrupting his newfound solace.

Snatched off the street by heavy-handed thugs, the panicked Paige is bound, gagged and whisked into the back of a van. Despite her determined efforts to free herself, she moves from van, to concrete floor, to limousine, to a ghastly coffin especially fitted for the transport of a human slave. Arriving at her ultimate destination - a scary barbed-wire compound - Paige discovers that her boyfriend Robert has sold her into slavery.

Freezing and broken, a woman creature is dying in a snowy New York City park. Jason, a young mechanic, finds her on his way home but finds she's not entirely human. Should he call the police? Should he bring her to a hospital? He decides to bring her home, and that choice changes everything. The woman is beautiful but dangerous. She has no memory of her past, but someday it will return to haunt them both.

Tortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary "first city" known as Primordium, the site of political upheaval, passionate encounters, and astonishing acts of transformation.