-spiderland
" when i'm hiding, when i need it, it lets me breathe
for our handle on this life i don't believe. . . "
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LOS ANGELES, 2000. Decades' worth of debauchery. Three horrific Chinatown homicides. Forty witnessing eyes. A mouth that refuses to keep shut. When former hardcore pornographer Rika Yokota breaks the number one rule of a notoriously shady industry and leaks information to the Feds regarding a fatal workplace incident, she finds herself fighting against the very same friends and associates who once promised to keep her out of harm's way at the start of her career.
As time goes on, Rika discovers she is not the only woman being subjected to their senseless violence. Enter Paisley Hughes, the fleeting star of an infamous compilation of titular snuff porn films that Rika once narrowly avoided producing five years prior. Drawn to Paisley's own turbulent past, as well as an aura of innocence she's maintained over time, Rika's motivations to protect herself and her newfound confidante increase when it is revealed that Paisley, too, has crucial knowledge about the murders.
But as the two women work together to expose deadly secrets and escape the clutches of their haunting pasts, they come to find that the outside world is far from an idyllic safe haven; it is the devil's playground and, more importantly, their terrible new home...
BOOK TWO OF THE DELICTI TRILOGY.
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" with these scars on my wrists to prove i'll try again
try to die again, try to live through this night. . . "