A cannibalistic serial killer targeting gay men is on the loose. Devin, who has become increasingly erratic in the last two months, just split up with Gary, his lover of three years. Vanni, a habitué of the gay clubs, makes extra spending money on his knees in the club johns. Is one of these men the killer? Or will one of them instead become the killer’s next target? Detective Hollis Robbins is in charge of the case. He intends to stop the killer, if he can. When the killer strikes again the four men’s lives intertwine as the search for the murderer intensifies. Will the attraction that two of them begin to feel for each other survive the hunt? Do they have the strength to continue on after tragedy strikes and teaches them that love can be bittersweet?

The Beast Within

Once he staggered into it and relieved his bursting bladder he opened the medicine cabinet. “Bingo,” he said when he saw a row of pill bottles on the middle shelf. He checked them out and took two pills from the one with a label that claimed it would cure any pain. He swallowed them, cupped a hand under the tap to get water to wash them down, then waited for them to kick in.


As he leaned against the sink he tried to piece together how he’d ended up where he was and who the hell the apartment belonged to. He remembered going to the small out-of-the-way bar outside of the city. He often went there because the guys who hung out there had money and desire to keep their sexual proclivities hidden from the rest of the world. It wasn’t a true BDSM place but there was a playroom in the basement for those who got off on the sub/Dom scene.


Chapter 5