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

Hell, he couldn’t get them off any of the times he’d seen the man who had broken through the barriers he’d so carefully erected to hide his sexuality even from himself. Monday and Tuesday he’d gone through the normal routines involved in shutting down a closed case and dealing with the new ones the lieutenant had assigned him. He knew Abbie wanted to question him about Vanni and did his best to avoid it happening, to no avail. She finally cornered him at the coffee machine when no one else was around.


“So?” she had said, one dark eyebrow arched in question.


She rolled her eyes. “How’s Vanni doing?”


Hollis had shrugged. “Fine as far as I know.”


“You’re going to make me drag this out of you, aren’t you?”


“Nothing to drag. I did like you wanted, went to check up on him, he looked okay considering what happened to him. I told him to get some rest and left.”


Chapter 30