The Grotesque

Thirteen years after a devastating murder, an ambitious, control-obsessed dancer lures her unstable admirer and her volatile boyfriend into a deadly masquerade-unleashing a psychological game of obsession, manipulation, and the buried guilt threatening to destroy them all. STEP ON A CRACK, SEE YOUR MOTHER LYING DEAD ON THE FLOOR. It was THEIR house. He had no right. No right at all. But that man took what he wanted, just to cap off that sad little boy's already unspeakable childhood. And for the next thirteen years, that pathetic useless child would cower and hide, hallucinate and obsess. Thirteen years. Until the past started circling back. This Halloween, one way or another, things are going to change. Because the focus of that boy's obsession-that desperate, failing dancer-has an agenda of her own: to escape his watchful eye and rid herself of the volatile boyfriend who takes anything he wants. To live the dream she's worked so hard to achieve. For Katrina, Jared, and Michael, every dream for the future is forever chained to the traumas of their childhoods. But it all ends when they become integral parts of a deadly masquerade to absolve the guilt-ridden secrets of the past. No more living in the shadows. It's time to spotlight the ugly truth. In a world where the innocent are broken, beaten, and betrayed, everything is a dance. Everyone is the audience. It's time to make it or break it all.