bA flesh-and-soul-devouring addiction runs rampant through the dark playground of the Hollywood elite in this tale of horror from a Bram Stoker Award winner.b p Welcome to Los Angeles, wherei everyi addiction is encouraged. . . . p Struggling Hollywood screenwriter Tom Prentice can hardly believe that the emaciated and mutilated corpse lying on the morgue slab was once his ex-wife. Then his roommate's missing brother turns up in a local hospital having sliced open his own chest and legs for some sick, inexplicable reason. In Oakland, the Reverend Garner, a recovering addict, leaves his ministry in search of his teenage daughter, who was last seen in the company of her ghoulish kidnapper. And the Los Angeles police are meanwhile baffled in their hunt for the elusive Wetbones serial killer who leaves nothing of his victims behind except a damp, grisly pile of bones. p Though Tom, the reverend, and the LAPD are on separate quests for answers, they are all being led into the darkest shadow