The year was 1899. The season, Spring. the time of the Mesmerist had come...
He was young. He was handsome. He was a stranger in Center City. And no one suspected that his dazzling smile and diamond-hard stare concealed a dark and deadly power--until it began.
Then terror gripped Center City like pain mounting to a shattering crescendo of compulsion, madness, and murder.
Only he knew how it all would end. And whit it had to be...
Felice Anthony Picano was an American writer, publisher and critic who encouraged the development of gay literature in the United States. His work is documented in many sources.