• Characters: Lanore, Zulu, MeShack, Roxy, Ben, Ray, Nona, Dante, Gabe, Goldie, the Palero
• Genre: Urban Fantasy, Romance, Horror
• Setting: Caged city in Miami and its different districts
• Reading time: 33 (01/11 to 04/12)
• Pages: 62900 words (average words per day: 1906)
• Rating: A whole new kind of reading experience
- Plot Summary
In a caged city called Santeria where all kinds of supernatural beings struggle to survive day by day, Lanore is a young woman who has the power to manipulate fire. One day on her way back from college she witnesses the murder of a woman in an alley, causing her to shake in fear as she runs away.
At home she regrets not having helped the defenseless woman and tells her flatmate and lifelong friend, MeShack, about what has happened. They look into the murdered woman's identity and learn she was a strip-dancer and that she has a kid, so they go to her apartment and take the abandoned kid, Ben, with them. Then Lanore turns to Zulu for help in tracing the killer. Accompanied by Ray, her bodyguard, Lanore goes to the brothel where the woman worked. There, Roxy, a waitress, gives them information regarding the brothel regulars, one of which Lanore thinks is the killer. After Lanore and Ray split up, she bumps into Ray's body ripped apart in her apartment.
As it turned out, the killer was committed to offering the 7 Gods of Santeria a corpse. Thus, another murder takes place, so, in despair, Lanore investigates further and learns that the killer is one of the children of a murderer who also massacred several people 10 years before, and she gets shocked when she discovers that one of them is Roxane, the waitress from the brothel. Immediately after, she calls Roxy's boss Goldie to warn him he may be the next victim. However, the person who answers happens to be Roxy and admits she is the killer.
Lanore rushes to Goldie's home hoping to prevent Roxy from killing him, but she arrives too late. Then, as Roxy wanted Lanore to be the next victim, she kidnaps Ben to oblige Lanore to give herself up. Consequently, Lanore interchanges herself in return for Ben and soon later faints. When she wakes up, she finds herself trapped with another girl. They cooperate and the two of them fight against Roxy, and with Lanore's fire, Roxy is burned to death.
At home she regrets not having helped the defenseless woman and tells her flatmate and lifelong friend, MeShack, about what has happened. They look into the murdered woman's identity and learn she was a strip-dancer and that she has a kid, so they go to her apartment and take the abandoned kid, Ben, with them. Then Lanore turns to Zulu for help in tracing the killer. Accompanied by Ray, her bodyguard, Lanore goes to the brothel where the woman worked. There, Roxy, a waitress, gives them information regarding the brothel regulars, one of which Lanore thinks is the killer. After Lanore and Ray split up, she bumps into Ray's body ripped apart in her apartment.
As it turned out, the killer was committed to offering the 7 Gods of Santeria a corpse. Thus, another murder takes place, so, in despair, Lanore investigates further and learns that the killer is one of the children of a murderer who also massacred several people 10 years before, and she gets shocked when she discovers that one of them is Roxane, the waitress from the brothel. Immediately after, she calls Roxy's boss Goldie to warn him he may be the next victim. However, the person who answers happens to be Roxy and admits she is the killer.
Lanore rushes to Goldie's home hoping to prevent Roxy from killing him, but she arrives too late. Then, as Roxy wanted Lanore to be the next victim, she kidnaps Ben to oblige Lanore to give herself up. Consequently, Lanore interchanges herself in return for Ben and soon later faints. When she wakes up, she finds herself trapped with another girl. They cooperate and the two of them fight against Roxy, and with Lanore's fire, Roxy is burned to death.
