A SCARY, SEXY, SHOCKING exploration of men, women, human obsession, animal lust, family secrets and psychological fallout...BRUCE DUPRIX is abandoning his life - if what he has can be considered a life: A shabby studio apartment, a girlfriend as meaningless to him as she is sexually appetizing, and a grim career investigating homicides for the New Orleans Police. Spurred by the riddle-like horrors of his dreams, Detective Duprix is returning to the only place he ever called home - the picayune Mississippi town of Davenrowe - in search of answers to a personal mystery; a death from his boyhood that has come to define him as a man. What he learns will carve him to the bone, and challenge everything he remembers. That is, if he can trust the words of his cousin Barbie - a fork-tongued provocatrix with as much a penchant for fashion as for fornication, and an arsenal of twisted revelations at her disposal. But before Bruce has a chance to decipher their haunting past, he's thrust center-stage into fresh hell...A LOCAL WOMAN IS MURDERED - a young harlot Bruce happens to know, barely, albeit intimately. As a canyon of distrust widens between him and the untested Davenrowe police, the evidence begins pointing to the very events that called him home, and to a phantom figure with a decades-old agenda. It seems someone is dead-set on manipulating Bruce's life, and is fixated on any woman who dares enter it; a seductive sociopath who prowls the shadows and wreaks bloody havoc on the streets by night. But the gravest threat may be the one Bruce least expects, and the worst nightmare any man could face: THE SCORNED LOVER HE LEFT BEHIND.
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