The discovery of two headless corpses dressed in colonial clothing and locked in a grisly embrace draws Detectives Miranda Quin and David Morgan of the Toronto Police Service into a Gothic mixture of sex and death that ultimately threatens their surviv

John Moss is the author of two dozen books, including Invisible Among the Ruins and Being Fiction, a collection short stories. Moss is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a scuba diving instructor. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario.