A power-thirsty detective on assignment gets drawn into a web of insatiable lust and supernatural perils tracing back to the days of the American Civil War in this erotic thriller.

D.V. Bernard is the author of seven novels, including the critically acclaimed Intimate Relations with Strangers, The Total Emasculation of the White Man, and The Thirst Earth. Originally from the Caribbean nation of Grenada, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was nine years old. In 2010, he returned to the Caribbean (Jamaica) to complete a master's degree in international development. Currently, he works as a database manager at an HIV/AIDS program in Harlem. Visit him online at DVBernard.com.