Humanity's defining characteristic is not our opposable thumbs but our voyeurism. It's the licentious, spying urge, which prompts us to peer through parted curtains and cracked doors, eager for a glimpse of skin or sin. Peep shows were born of that vice and thrived. Peep shows, the absinthe of the sex trades-alluring, misleading and deliciously, delightfully toxic. When Joely runs off to San Francisco to become a stripper, she doesn't realize that she's entered a dark and depraved world where nothing is as it seems. Plagued by violent fantasies, she undergoes a disastrous psychic surgery that results in her assault and the breakdown of all her careful constructs. After her boyfriend disappears and her girlfriend is murdered, Joely must struggle to get a grip on reality and grow beyond the carnal desires of her flesh even while mired in them.
A contemporary novel set in San Francisco, Flesh Hell is an urban fantasy novel detailing the edgy subculture of sex workers. This is a darkly comic and erotic world in flux, shifting precariously away from reality as dragons battle angels and ghosts take up residence with hallucinatory dancers. Flesh Hell hits the literary G-spot and leaves you breathless.
