The Winding Stair

A single red rose on her doorstep and anonymous phone calls have reduced writer Ginny Harvey to a nervous wreck. Seeking peace and telling no one where she is going, she runs away, but a rose is delivered to her hideaway! Back home, she is at breaking point when suddenly the rose and the phone calls stop. Feeling safe again, she forms a friendship but realizes too late that the man in whom she has placed her trust is a cruel predator. Finding herself at his mercy, she is reminded of the poem "The Spider and the Fly": she has walked up the winding stair, but will she walk free, or will she perish like the fly?