Deep in the unforgiving darkness of the Florida Everglades, bodies begin to surface-staged, mutilated, and marked by something far more disturbing than violence. Each victim is part of a story already written.
When fishermen discover the first corpse pinned with a page titled Alligator Stew, Detectives Jax Miller and Mina Santos believe they are investigating a brutal but isolated murder. They are wrong.
A second body appears, bound within mangroves.
A third is found carved beneath an ancient cypress tree.
Each death mirrors a published short story written by an unknown author.
As the detectives race to stop the killer, they uncover the truth-the murderer is not just killing. He is writing his victims into existence.
And the next story has already begun.
Tropical Terror.
Some stories end. Others survive their author.