The most irresistible yet deadly creature in New York risks everything when love he cannot have becomes his obsession.
Book I of the Yulen series offers a psychological suspense mystery with paranormal elements that delves into its anti-hero's emotional turmoil and physical uniqueness.
Owen Odem is the most gorgeous creature in New York City, and the most cursed. By day, the supreme salesman mints commissions using an exceptional gift. By night in his one room ghetto tenement, chilling memories besiege his happiness.
After an assaulted politically connected city visitor mysteriously disappears, Detective Gail Honeycutt-NYPD's most ambitious and voted hottest five years running-gets the case expected to ignite her career. But then she meets the alluring Owen Odem, and her mad desire for him only enflames the uncontrollable envy of her bad-boy former lover. Powerful and corrupt, Captain Jinks Metcalf destroys all who try to take what he deems his.
More innocents of the city meet shocking ends, intrigue over the captivating yet mysterious Owen Odem deepens, and Odem's own profound doubts and growing aversion to his nature unexpectedly provoke an astonishing revelation.
Owen Odem, the yearning or envy of all who meet him, prepares rebellion against the nature that he believes deceived him. To return to his human heart he must survive those who prevent his redemption, those who pursue him, those who love him, and hardest still, overcome his nature's dictates. If he fails to rise again like the Phoenix, his own hand will have cut his wings.
Book I introduces yulen the human ideal: brave, benevolent, beautiful, and unfortunately-deadly.
