City of the Damned launches the Luna Noir saga with a bullet-scarred, whiskey-soaked descent into a world where the difference between predator and prey is measured in heartbeats. Donovan Hale is an undercover detective who thought he’d seen every nightmare the streets could offer—until he was forced to pull the trigger on an innocent woman to prove his loyalty to the mob. Betrayed by the badge, hunted by the men he once tried to bring down, and haunted by a city that devours its own, Hale has nowhere left to run. When he crosses paths with "The Lady Rose"—a seductive femme fatal, whose allure is matched only by her danger—he’s drawn into a darker underworld where power is written in blood and survival means surrendering more than your humanity. In City of the Damned , Hale must navigate a labyrinth of crime, desire, and monstrous secrets if he hopes to escape the jaws closing around him. But in a city where sin is currency and shadows wear a human face, redemption might already be beyond his reach.