seething with restless energy. A city where skies are always blue but where life and death are seldom simple. Now those skies are covering a series of shockingly bizarre deaths and tough, charismatic, Cuban-American reporter Britt Montero is back to investigate them.

With a dying detective as her friend and source, Britt probes the unsolved sex murder of a small girl, which seems to implicate the rich and powerful front-runner in the governor's race. She also finds herself on the trail of a terrifying serial rapist who is ambushing career women. The quest takes her from the sterile and antiseptic police crime lab to the dark heart of Santeria, a blood-fuelled religion linked to sacrifice, and the occult.

How does it all add up? And as the rapist escalates his violence, can Britt put the pieces together without becoming a victim herself?