Geralds Game by Stephen King

The provided excerpts come from Stephen King's novel, "Gerald's Game," as indicated by the title page information. The narrative centers on Jessie Burlingame, who is handcuffed to a bed next to the corpse of her husband, Gerald, after a sexual game turns fatal. Through her terrifying ordeal of dehydration, physical pain, and the presence of a stray dog and a horrifying hallucination of a man with a case of bones, Jessie experiences an internal dialogue with multiple distinct "voices"—her tough friend Ruth, the conformist Goodwife, and her vulnerable childhood self, Punkin—as she struggles to survive and confront repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse by her father during a solar eclipse. The later sections reveal her escape, recovery, and the connection between her hallucination and a captured serial killer named Raymond Andrew Joubert.