Sometimes life just plain sucks. You do what you can to get by, but then sometimes even that isn't enough. Meet Gloria, aging porno actress, failed wife and mother, drug-addict, seduced into a monstrous world of depraved sex and violent deceit, battling to save her immortal soul and that of her only daughter from Inferno . . . and you thought your life was Hell."Wrath James White has more to say than many of his contemporaries, and says it more eloquently. He can gross you out with the best (or worst) of 'em, but I think there's more to him than that..." --Poppy Z. Brite"O'Rourke digs down into some loamy soil--what she comes up with is disturbingly dark, and often, very funny." --Jack Ketchum

    A single black rose left at the scene of each crime. And in the peaceful coastal town of Trinity Bay, Theresa Zane has just met the man of her dreams. Literally. He is an incubus, with the power to touch the sleeping minds of women and waken their darkest and most hidden desires. His influence turns wives against husbands, mothers against sons, friends against friends. No one is safe. Theresa least of all. For it is Theresa he wants. Theresa he must have. He will do anything to win her. Anything at all. Even kill. The haunting image of black roses will lead Theresa to Seacliff, a house with a troubled past. But not even the help of three dead girls and a mysterious necklace may be enough to save her.

    Adam Brenton enjoys a one hundred percent success rate. Though his methods are both highly unconventional and completely illegal, Brenton has no shortage of happy clients. However, none of the not-so-good doctor's treatments can impregnate Michelle Archer. He has to find out what he's doing wrong; there's a reputation at stake, not to mention a few souls. Dr. Brenton is--literally--the gynecologist from Hell. [Strong Sexual Content]