The California Butcher is the first novel published by Stephen Rhoades. It is a psychological horror book and was published in 2024. A troubled schoolteacher stumbles upon a fetish website and begins a journey of pleasure and madness. 
In this modern-day version of Sacramento, deeply flawed people search for love while a serial killer stalks the State of California.
Horror author Stephen Rhoades delivers a terrifying and dark novel that will linger in your mind long after you put the book down. A psychological thriller from one of the newest voices in horror.
