The victim of a bizarre urban legend, Sophia, a nihilistic teenage girl obsessed with vampirism and the occult, finds herself thrust into the bowels of San Francisco’s sinister occult underground, and participant to a one hundred-year-old feud that will bring her face to face with her past, her future and her mortality. The year is 1986 and the satanic panic scare of the nineteen eighties is at a shrilling crescendo. For the past thirty years, society has gone through a pandemic of changes away from religion and Christian morality. All over the country parents, teachers and clergy are searching for answers and desperate to find a solution to this unholy dilemma. San Francisco, one of the most influential cities in the world and to a large extent the originator of these changes has been hit hardest, becoming a mecca for Satan worshippers, serial killers, witchcraft and freaks. The city is in a panic, and desperate for a solution to its ungodly plight. The Mayor, in a last-ditch attempt to save the city, has called in a specialist; Enter Special Agent Detective Sam Anders of the FBI, occult cop extraordinaire. Together with Sophia, and a motley cast of dubious characters, he must find a way to stop the bloodiest crime spree in the cities’ history. Inspired by a true story, Dez Del Rio’s first novel The Lipstick Killerz combines horror, mystery and the supernatural to create a powerful blend of historical storytelling that is sure to keep readers turning pages long into the night.