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

“How old are you really?” she asked.


Vanni looked at Hollis. “Do I have to tell her?”


“Might as well, she’ll get it out of you one way or the other before the night’s over.”


“Oh to be young again,” Abbie said in response. She smiled up at her husband when he told her she was hardly old.


At that point Mitch pounded an empty bottle on the bar to get everyone’s attention. “Since this is Vanni’s birthday I decided we should do it up right. And before anyone asks, Hollis knows about this.” Mitch clapped his hands and two very handsome and extremely well-built young men wearing nothing but studded leather codpieces came out carrying a large cake on a silver tray.


“Shit,” Vanni whispered, uncertain which was more impressive, the boys carrying the cake or the cake itself.


“I think the baker outdid himself,” Hollis whispered back, eyeing the amazingly detailed cock that was the centerpiece.


Chapter 37