

In an interview with Bookgasm, author J.F. Desperate to save her life and her unborn child's life, Lisa makes a deal with her captors to offer another innocent person's life in place of her own, abandoning all morals in order to survive.

At the small cabin in the woods where they keep her captive, she meets her co-star for the snuff film: a masochist well-versed in acts of perversion and especially eager to torture Lisa.

Not long after, alone and defenseless Lisa is kidnapped by a band of sadists who plan to torture her as graphically as possible and record the entire gruesome act on film for profit. However, the prospect of their vacation is dashed almost instantly as they are involved in a curious altercation of road rage and Brad is subsequently arrested for reckless driving by the local county sheriff. When Brad and his wife Lisa plan a romantic weekend getaway, Lisa is ecstatic and looks forward to sharing the delightful news with her husband that she is pregnant. The book is cited by most critics as operating in the subgenre of “hardcore horror” as Gonzalez’ novel explores in graphic details controversial themes such as bestiality, cannibalism, mutilation, necrophilia, and snuff films. The basic premise of the novel was originally published by Delirium Books in 2002 as a novella entitled Maternal Instinct.
