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

“Mother fucker,” Vanni growled, his words slurred but intelligible. When Hollis started toward him instead of dealing with the suspect he muttered, “I’ll live, take care of him.”


By then Abbie had cuffed the man and started to read him his rights. Hollis hauled him none too gently to his feet before making a call for an ambulance and a CSI team. Then he turned to Vanni with a scowl. “Of all the bone-headed, stupid, dumbass things you’ve ever pulled this one takes the cake.”


Vanni smiled back crookedly. “But it worked.”


“You will not believe this,” Hollis said as Abbie joined him outside the interrogation room. “That…creature thinks he’s a creature. A Wendigo to be precise. He’s convinced that he has to eat flesh to stay alive, especially hearts but other flesh as well.”


“Umm, okay,” she responded as she looked through the one-way glass at the man. “And why did he target gay men?”


Chapter 28