Stage Condition

Female bodybuilders are dying.

Found posed in blood-soaked hotel rooms just days before the biggest competition of their lives, two rising stars who've become bigger, stronger, and improving faster than anyone thought genetically possible have been silenced forever

Detective Jake Mercer is assigned the case that pulls him into a world of extreme discipline, impossible physiques, and dark obsession. As the murders mount, he uncovers a deadly secret: a mysterious supplement promising rapid, unnatural muscle growth that no drug test can detect.

The investigation draws him dangerously close to Katana Lash — his high school sweetheart turned towering, massively muscled competitor. Her explosive transformation has made her the favorite to win it all. Her body is a breathtaking weapon of thick, sweeping lats, carved abs, and powerful, vein-laced thighs that stir something in Jake he refuses to name.

She may also be next.

With the championship only days away, Jake and his athletic partner, Gracie Miguez, who poses as a fitness competitor, race to stop a killer who chooses his victims who embody size itself. In a world where strength is the ultimate aphrodisiac and every flex hides a secret, desire and danger blur into one.

Because someone isn't just watching these women.

They're worshipping them.

And then eliminating them.