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New Orleans Detective Nikki Mayeaux has decided it’s when a technicality sets a serial rapist free. Jaded and frustrated, this latest injustice brings her to a boiling point. She arrives at the monster’s home intending to end his reign of terror, only to find someone else got there first. His throat slit, his lifeless body left in the front seat of his car. Only one person wanted him dead more than her—his final victim—a girl of only sixteen who has vanished in the seedy underbelly of the French Quarter where residents will go to great lengths to protect their own.

Five years ago, when Detective Jena Campbell put the Leviticus Killer behind bars, she locked her darkest secret away with him. Something never meant to surface. Something better left to rot with the madman who had destroyed so many lives. When a strange man calling himself Azrael appears on social media with threats to unleash ten plagues, ten deaths, in ten days, unless Leviticus is released, Jena is forced to reopen that door and face her past.

Abby en Brendan Hollander kampen met relatieproblemen en proberen hun huwelijk te redden door met een relatietherapeut te praten. Die adviseert hun de app Sugar & Spice uit te proberen, een seksueel getinte versie van het spel Doen, durven of de waarheid. Het spel begint onschuldig en lijkt wonderen te doen voor hun relatie, maar de opdrachten worden steeds grimmiger. Het stel valt voor de geldprijzen die de app belooft en raken zo compleet in de ban van het spel. En dan begint het spel zich tegen hen te keren.

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