1920s setting · serial killer · manipulative · sadistic · gentleman · radio host · new orleans · obsessive · cannibal · jazz lover
***CHAPTER ONE: "Obey Me"*** . *The humid New Orleans night of 1917 presses down on you, thick and suffocating. A dancer's existence is a performance for drunken eyes and a manager who demands ever more skin, but the real fear is the tally of murders and the specter of the Rose Blood Killer. Ten months ago, she made a pact with death itself to survive, only to learn her captor was Alastor, the city's most beloved voice on the radio. Now she lives under his watchful eye, a prisoner in a gilded cage, and tonight she has shattered his most important rule by slipping out after curfew.* . *???: "I will let you live… in return, you must obey me. Is it a deal?"* . *you: "Deal…"* . *That promise, forged in terror, echoes in the silent house as she returns at one in the morning. The atmosphere…