The Girl in 6E

May 19, 2014
Self-published erotica author Torre (Blindfolded Innocence) plunges into cybersex “camming” in this overwrought dishing of homicidal psychosis. The Internet enables Deanna Madden (aka Jessica Reilly) to make a tidy $6.99 per minute—which translates to between $30,000 and $55,000 a month—performing sexual acts alone in live video feeds for websites patronized by the lonely and the depraved. She also broadcasts similar exhibitions four hours per day for 350 private subscribers ($20 per month), who can anonymously bare their sexual secrets and fearlessly fantasize to her. Dreading her own bloodlust, Deanna isolates herself in her scabby apartment for three years until a client’s pedophiliac fantasies threaten a child. Then Deanna reenters the world and swoops to the rescue. Readers should be prepared for superficial psychological analysis, ham-fisted red-herring-laying, and Deanna’s unconvincing redemptive yen for a handy hunky UPS driver. Agent: Maura Kye-Casella, Don Congdon Associates.

July 1, 2014
Deanna is a young woman with a tragic pasther mother went mad and killed the rest of her family, sending teenage Deanna off to her grandparents' home at the last minute. Deanna fears that she has inherited her mother's killing gene and sequesters herself away from the world, becoming a webcam sex worker to pay the bills. And pay the bills, she doesher online persona, Jess, is in high demand. Scenes between Jess and her many devoted clients are played out in detailed, Penthouse Forumstyle vignettes. When one of the men asks her to act out his pederastic fantasies, it makes her suspiciousand it takes a lot to freak this girl outleading her to determine that she might be able to use her killing urge for good rather than evil. A news report on a missing girl leads Jess to enlist the help of the only man she has allowed into her locked apartment and her life, a UPS delivery guy named Jeremy. There's a bit of unclear plotting involving the missing girl, but readers who like their erotica laced with suspense will find plenty of reasons not to hang up on Jess.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)