num_pages: 105
description: Chinatown San Francisco.A different place  another time and where the citys streets keep secrets shadowy mysteries SFPD Inspector Spencer Ricci needs to dig through after he finds himself on a case involving a dismembered mummified man in a restaurants locked storage room.Spencer drags around a lot of baggage including an ongoing battle with the bottle and a long career as an LAPD detective hed set fire to in a blaze of booze-soaked mistakes. San Francisco is supposed to be a new start but his old ghosts haunt him beckoning him back into his self-destructive bad habits. Bad habits that include contemplating doing dirty things with the wrong kind of guy and this time its a sleek cold-tempered medical examiner named Xian Carter with a complicated reputation.For a century-old demon Xian Carter is content with his secretive life. Hiding his nature from the mundane world he blends in with the citys inhabitants as best he can but even the best of predators make mistakes. Delving into the mysteries of the dead provide a welcome distraction from endless nights and hiding in plain sight amuses him until something supernaturally wicked comes knocking on his door with an extremely hot broody Inspector close behind.Murder makes for strange bedfellows and this one is no exception. The twists and turns of the case leaves Xian and Spencer on a wild goose chase after clues but Xian can only hope theres a human at the end of the trailbecause the last thing San Francisco needs is another predator.
language: English
title: Bound
publisher: Rogue Firebird Press