Dragonfire Dreams — Wayne Saalman

FAST TIMES, FIERY LIVES… Peter Skyler and his indie rock band are about to begin the biggest gig of their career when a gunman bursts into the club and lets loose with a pistol. It is Skyler's girlfriend, Shannon Youngblood, who is almost killed when the bullets go flying. She too is the one to make headlines after a clip of the shooting takes news shows by storm. When a self-styled “shock artist” subsequently edits the clip, sets it to music and gives it an overtly erotic twist, the video goes viral over the Internet, becoming a YouTube sensation and an utter nightmare for the striking beauty.

FATES STRANGELY ENTANGLED… What happens next stuns everyone, for a man in New York City begins to copycat the violent episode. When he inadvertently kills two people, his grisly misdeed sparks a police manhunt of epic proportions. As he subsequently eludes his pursuers, the unrepentant figure brashly reinvents himself as a self-styled shock artist too, calling himself “Vlad the Imp” and enthralling people all around the planet with his “stunt punk gun fun” as the police manhunt heats up to an absolutely feverish pitch. Finally, with the whole world hanging on his every move, the increasingly psychotic felon perpetrates a series of devious exploits meant to ensure his criminal notoriety forever, including a blasphemous sacrilegious act intended to insult the God that he feels has abandoned him. To that end, he succeeds in cleverly outfoxing the police and making off with Shannon, the woman of his dreams, for a sizzling night of passion to which she must submit or else…