1898 Jerry has come to San Antonio on the trail of a murderer. An investigator with an axe to grind, he's not afraid of anyone especially the enigmatic leader of a secretive community or the strange gathering known as the masquerade. On the eve of the latest masquerade, Jerry will work his way through several suspicious persons in his pursuit of the raw truth. Secrets can have sharper fangs then serpents, however. A connection to murder is only one thread running through the underground community's web of deceptions. Jerry will unearth as much as he can in his personal vendetta to bring a murderer down. However, in a world dedicated to the donning of masks, the truth is surrounded at all times by pleasing and chilling disguises. What Jerry learns about the group and himself when he peels these layers away will shake his beliefs to the core. Kaysee Renee Robichaud pens an erotically charged mystery set in the old west. Suspense and sex mingle in this GLBT-themed tale guaranteed to get the heart racing with passion and fear . . .