Gloria Caroline Mulgrave

The year is 1979. The sky burns orange with leaded air over a vicious city.

Gloria Mulgrave is a lounge and jazz singer most nights. It pays the bills and lets her keep a schedule she prefers. But in her spare time, she's got a real nasty habit. She fools around as she pleases, sure, but what really gets her going is taking the sharpest knife she can find and digging it around right in a man's center mass.

And really, that habit would have stayed a dirty little secret that she'd never share with another soul, if she hadn't been seen. But lucky for her, she got noticed by just the right boy, an 18-year-old prizefighter from Gardena whose tastes run as bloody as her own. Gloria is smitten, happy to be so comfortably entwined with someone who seems custom-built just for her needs.

Gloria is a sophisticated, elegant woman who keeps herself looking her best as often as she can. She makes a point of keeping herself under control and her image is perfectly polished. The wilder side of her, the side which makes her so eager to go around killing men just for fun and excitement, is something she could stop at any time, if she really wanted. Really. She could stop right now.

Will she? No, of course not. But she swears, she doesn't have to do this...