When orphan Cherie Rose realizes she's fallen in love with her ma m re's murderer, her obsession with serial killers begins. In an underworld rife with irrational impulse, shameless sexual acts, and slaughter, love is most profound in monsters. When Cherie finds herself in the welcoming embrace of the Circus of Sorrows, she believes she has finally found a home and a lover to rival her mother's killer: the Gray Man. But when her new partner, the flamboyant...