With over 200 bestselling novels to her name, Taiwan’s “Queen of Horror Fiction” now invests her authorial talents in a new series of works centered on the seven deadly sins. Her first, on lust, plumbs the depths of sexual predation, victimized high school girls, internet celebrity, media reporting, and more.

Wu Ju-Yin’s dramatic suicide in front of her parents is made all the more baffling by the note she leaves behind: “I won’t go back to hell.” The tragedy is headline news. However, while most reporters chalk it up to a revenge suicide, Ju-Yin’s consistently good grades and seemingly doting parents just don’t add up.

In the days that follow, Ju-Yin’s classmate Hung-Chia is confronted by Ju-Yin’s ghost, who asks, “Why do you still say nothing?” Although Hung-Chia remembers seeing Ju-Yin in the back seat of a well-known cram school teacher’s car as it turned into a motel, that was before the two had even met and, after all, there was no evidence to prove what she’d seen. The mangled spirit continues badgering her and torturing her dreams. What does Hung-Chia have to do for Ju-Yin to finally let her be?

Around the same time, reports of missing and victimized female students begin cropping up in the same school district. Surprisingly, the brutalized bodies of the purported predators are found at several of the crime scenes while, at another, a cryptic “crop circle”-like pattern is found. Expert pundits weigh in, calling it a daemon’s circle… But what, if anything, do demons and evil spirits have to do with these cases?

Author Linea weaves demonic elements and a familiar bloodstained landscape into this visceral work of horror fantasy on sexual predation. This story also shines a harsh light on crime reporting in the media and blind spots in traditional family and educational systems, and asks how society may better prevent crime and support its victims. While all books in this series share similar characters, each is its own standalone story.