Synopsis:
“Love passeth all understanding”or “Love passeth all knowledge,”I prefer the first translation. Having lived, died and been reanimated, my experience has proven the first. Settling in the luxury Brooklyn Heights’ Federal Style manse, owned by my lover/maker, my existence took on a whole new form."
Victor's five minute mother-in-law murdered her son, Victor’s lover, husband, Jason, her granddaughter, and a wedding guest, wounded her whole family. Augustus Beyer, the Duo’s incredibly wealthy, playmate, saves Victor through transforming him into a 'Child Of the Gift.' Victor's and Augi's human/ vampire duality allows them to be malevolent guardians to Victor's human families. Jeremy Santos, Jason's and now Victor's nephew, becomes the center of their eternal lives as a mysterious illness imbues the fourteen year old with unusual powers.
Jealousy, conflict, human frailties, love, family and secrecy inform their lives.
Synopsis:
"So here I am, an immigrant doing a job Americans were not willing to do, cleaning out their deplorable brethren. I'm a serial killer. At least that's what the police label me. I live to eat and kill. As Ru Paul says, everything else is drag," says the narrator of this book-thirtyish, Gay, handsome, educated, rich, and a genius, who perfected his skills in Sicily.
Now settled in Brooklyn Heights, he hunts the internet for his prey, ultra-conservative homosexuals. A police lieutenant heads the task force to capture him. She enlists a Gay reporter's assistance through his lover-her college-professor brother.
The Slayer demonically evades detection, inserting himself into her Filipino-Greek family of three generations-a family soon to be torn apart by one of their own. Moral ambiguity, lust, incest, sadism, murder, revenge, addiction, bigotry, and unnatural malevolence savage their lives. But love, generosity, and a monster come to the rescue.
RW MADSON
"Death changed him. Love bound him. Darkness follows."