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    In this sequel to THE VESPER MASQUERADE Clarice Starling has returned from Florence. However, the city’s memories cling to her. Her meetings with Hannibal Lecter; the moments of forbidden intimacy linger in her mind, entwined with the horrific events she witnessed at Mason Verger’s Florentine lair. Now, with Dr. Lecter soon to be extradited to the United States, Clarice must confront the truths she has long avoided: desire, guilt, and the fragility, or illusion of control.

    She will finally be forced to face who Dr. Hannibal Lecter really is. The darkness he embodies, but also the love he has awakened in her. Meanwhile a chilling new case erupts: the brutal murders of children, their lives stolen with a violence that threatens to consume and remake both Clarice Starling's and Hannibal Lecter's entire world.

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