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

They ended the tour at the doorway to Hollis’s bedroom on the second floor. Vanni stepped inside to check it out. “Family?” He picked up a framed picture on the dresser.


Hollis went over to say, touching the faces, “Yes. My parents, sister and brother, and me of course.”


“You were cute.” Vanni put the picture back and turned to take Hollis in his arms. “Of course, you still are,” he told him, then he kissed him.


Hollis fell into the kiss as if it were the first one they had ever shared and the last they might ever have. A hunger tore through him with an intensity he couldn’t fight and no longer wanted to.


“Damn,” Vanni murmured when they finally separated to take deep breaths. “If you can kiss like that what the hell will you be like in bed?”


“Scared to death,” Hollis replied shakily.


Chapter 33