The book starts with dawn breaking over Hollywood where one human and one predator stumble across a corpse! The coyote knows it's her next meal, but the human questions whether it's a prop from a film. The reality of it being a real human body becomes evident when the coyote tears a chunk out of it. Police are called to investigate what appears to be the death of the man by being roasted to death. This is such an unusual murder method that it makes you want to find out what kind of twisted individual could kill in this way.