On opening night at Atlantic City’s haunted Black Widow Theatre, brilliant young magician Lucy Moon finds a body inside the infamous sawing box that killed a performer decades earlier a black rose clutched in her mouth. The rose terrifies Lucy for reasons she’s never confessed, and she knows one thing for certain: the killer will strike again.As she races through Atlantic City’s shadowy underworld, Lucy must unmask a murderer who seems to know more about her past than she does. But...

This is a work of fiction that starts out by showing marriage (sex) as being the way to let out one's true passion and true self. The use of subtle magical realism helps the author to tell of the enjoyable and the frightening aspects that co-exist while experiencing sex within the marriage. Men are beasts, or at least compared to them. A woman is not supposed to know more than the man wants her to. When she tries to find out more, she is rejected by all men. This includes her father.