A columnist for the Big Easy's hottest erotic magazine, Britta Berger has heard her share of wild, hidden desires.But beneath her sophisticated facade, Britta is running frommuch darker secrets...including the terrifying night she barelysurvived. Now someone from her past has returned to play amerciless game. And only one man can help her. Detective Jean-Paul Dubois knows instinctively that Brittais the key to ending the string of vicious ritualistic murdersthat plague his city. But still haunted by his past, he mustresist the dangerous attraction between them. For lurkingdeep in the shadows of the bayou, a killer waits to endher life--and their future--with one devastating final strike.