WARNING: ADULT CONTENT

In the brutal, neon-soaked underworld of 2040 New York, murder has become a performance, and the city can’t stop watching.

Julian Kane thought the nightmare was over. Luststream, the hyper-erotic, ultra-violent platform that turned sex and slaughter into spectacle, was dismantled. Its architect, Victor Dray, fell. The servers were burned. The ghosts were supposed to rest.

But the feed is back.

A new stream pulses through the dark web, masking ritual killings behind flashing strobe lights and moaning avatars. From bathhouses to backrooms, dancers are dying on camera. The new Auteur has no face, no motive, only an obsession: keep the show going, keep the blood flowing.

Julian, disgraced journalist, recovering Luststream addict, and haunted lover, can’t look away. Not when the killer taunts him with every feed. Not when the man he once loved, Flynn Blake, might be complicit. Not when the only allies he has left are a closeted ex-cop with shattered ribs and a former sex icon trying to rebuild his soul.

Their hunt takes them through the city’s decaying heart: from derelict subway tunnels to penthouse orgies, queer raves to server farms wired with death. Every step forward costs blood. Every secret they uncover cuts deeper.

Because Luststream never really dies. It evolves.

And Julian’s darkest fear isn’t that the killings will continue.
It’s that he’ll never want them to stop.