There's a monster in the attic, a thing of myth. Eight legs, six eyes, a taste for classical music and long nights of passion. Declan Cooper has already been introduced to the refined lady, and taken her potentially deadly kiss during an estranged party. He wakes now in a bed of the finest silk webs, the terrifyingly beautiful lady with the lower body of a black widow spider - Latrodia Variolus - tending for his recovery with motherly care.She'll see him back in health, but not back on his feet. The night has only begun.