Firefly

Firefly by Piers Anthony paperback ISBN 0-380-75950-0 466 pages see pictures for condition of book. cover worn. Using the same Florida setting as his horror novel Shade of the Tree, Anthony here conjures up a nightmarish creature who stalks humans through sexual attraction and leaves them grotesquely sucked dry of their protoplasm. — When bodies reduced to skin and skeleton are found on a remote wildlife sanctuary, the reclusive owner of the estate refuses to call in outside help to track down the killer. His employees are left to fend for themselves against the menace of a predator who lures them in the way a firefly traps its prey -- by emitting pheromones, powerfully sexual chemicals -- and uses digestive acids to dissolve the bodies of its victims.