Somewhere in the sprawling city of Houston, a psychopath s stalking his victims.  Each is a high-priced call girl trained and groomed for the pleasure of high-powered gentlemen.  Each is found murdered, her body twisted in a climax of agony, defying medical explanation.  but most chilling of all is that the killer is coldly efficient, leaving behind no clues, no motives, no evidence. Homicide detective Stuart Haydon has seen his share of the dangerous passions that lead to murder, but he's never seen anything like this before.  From its luxury condos to its rotting wharves and mean back streets, Haydon is sucked into the seedy sexual underbelly of the city...into a secret slave trade in flesh and lust...into the cold mind of a killer in love with death.