Anton Prosper and Steffan Kabala collaborate in the lab, in this scene from Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death. On sale: September 15, 2008

In a decadent futuristic society, Anton Prosper uses his vast fortune and scientific genius to discover the secret of immortality. But when handsome geneticist Steffan Kabala enters Prosper's life, he unlocks a tempestuous passion that may set their world careening toward a horrifying day of reckoning.

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