At first, Frances thought she"d gone blind. She couldn"t see a thing, and then, the frightening realisation stuck her. She was blindfolded, by a dark material that kept every scrap of light from reaching her eyes. Her head ached, and she felt as if she had a terrible hangover, but she couldn"t remember having anything to drink. Then, a further realisation hit her. She tried to move her hands, and discovered they were fastened to the top of whatever surface she was lying on by tightly fitting handcuffs, and the same applied to her legs, chained by the ankles to the other end of the hard, cold surface. Cold! Yes, she was cold, and a ripple of fear ran through her body as she realised she was naked. Naked, and chained, spread-eagled on some kind of…what? A table? A bed? No, she thought, too h
