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

Hollis nodded in agreement. They had been at DTM for two hours and as far as they could tell, it looked like it would be another wasted night. “Maybe I was way off base,” he replied quietly. “We could be hanging out here while he’s at another club picking out his potential victim and taking him off for a night of debauchery of the very unpleasant sort.”


“You think he is going to strike again?”


“If he follows true to form. He’s killed once a week since he started, always on the weekend.”


“We need to stop him,” Vanni told him emphatically.


Hollis’s smile verged on amused. “You’re really getting into this.”


“Ahh, yes, I can see why you might.” It was apparent from the look on his face Hollis wished he hadn’t said that seconds after the words left his mouth.


Vanni tensed angrily before he took a deep breath and slowly let it out. “I deserved that.”


Chapter 20