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The Power Metal is Hot

The Torture is Bloody

It's 1999. Everything is on track for Detective Stella Mahoney, but who has she become? On a trip to Toronto, seeking answers about the night her father died, she's ready to blow her life apart. She indulges in a reckless bourbon-sex bender at a Queensrÿche concert. Whisked home to a murder scene of torturous extremes, SHe profiles the red reaper. Y2K, the worldwide computer meltdown, threatens the investigation. When death reaches its claws into her inner circle, her self-destruction spirals out of control. Will the rules imposed by her badge stifle her screaming instincts, or will she catch a killer before another victim slowly bleeds to death?

Four weeks from her 18th birthday, Ivy stone is ready to watch her first kill. Her grandfather's Iron Maiden torture device is a masterpiece. As the spikes pierce into the victim's flesh, Ivy's desires to be in full control of the next kill peak. Fuelled by Iron Maiden power metal, she welds her own creation, the Toxic Tongue, and fights to take control of her own modus operandi. The struggle intensifies. Her urges heighten. The suppression of her dead mother still haunts her. Will the killer within flourish? Or will she forever chase the ultimate release?