THE SUGAR SYNDROME In The Sugar Syndrome author Roberts takes us to the seductive world of Sugaring. A place that promises that if, "I'm rich and you're hot," a mutually beneficial trade may be made. But things are never quite that simple, as many young Sugar Babies seek not only to enter into mutually beneficial Arrangements, some have even more extreme desires. And then there are the dangerous predators who lurk unseen. An up to the minute erotic thriller set in the age of the internet. A story of desire, obsession, madness, and forbidden passions. The story moves from the Movie Studio's of Hollywood to the lavish Swingers clubs of Paris, and then unfolds in modern day NYC where we find Jack Steele a broken man, a shadow of the former Academy award winning screen writer he once was. Jack develops an attraction for a 17 year old Sugar Baby named Caroline who tells him she has certain sexual fetishes she needs to act out. With the help of his Hollywood studio big shot friend Tod he starts a new screenplay that he thinks will put him back on top again. He learns the world's top selling story genre is now Female Kink Erotica and the audience has an insatiable appetite for more. He decides to tackle the genre for his next screen project. Tod informs Steele about a popular online dating site called "Sugar Sugar," a site that matches very young girls with wealthy older men in "Arrangements." Going on the site he discovers that the site and its members appear to a goldmine for relevant material for his new project. One of the "Sugar Babies" he finds online is a very young and beautiful aspiring model, Caroline. She tells him she is 18 and a virgin, whose life has been obsessively guarded by her over protective mother. Caroline harbours some very dark fantasies that she says she needs to act out. At the same time a series of murders is taking place in the 5 Boroughs of NYC, 4 girls in 4 months have been murdered in a grisly fashion. Will Caroline be number 5 ? The one common link for all the dead girls is that they have all been listed as Sugar Babies seeking an "Arrangement" on the Sugar Sugar site. The NYC Homicide Police have a massive manhunt underway to try decipher the mysterious clue and track down the serial killer before another Sugar Baby is found murdered. As Steele continues his interactions on the Sugar Sugar site he starts becoming more and more consumed by the Sugar Babies, and specifically Caroline and her interests in BDSM. Steele becomes drawn into Caroline's dark S&M fantasies which have a dramatic and shocking ending.