Not all that long ago I learned a valuable lesson in life. The lesson is that it takes exponentially more power to control a summoned demon than it does to summon one. How did I learn that? My friends summoned one where I was the sacrifice.
I know, right? Not what I expected for the last week of high school. I’m not sure many people plan for their best friends in the entire world to sacrifice them so that they can get good grades and into college. Yet that’s exactly what happened to me.
I was dead for three years, with the demon Aremos killing and sacrificing everyone I’ve ever known or loved. Literally. And now I’m back in the saddle, running my life, with the changes that she left behind still visible. Scales. Eyes like a goat. Talons. Magic. A tail. I’m also living in the most violent city in the world. The Warrens.
Yet I’m still making a go of it. My new roommate, Laurie, and her adorable son, Petey, are with me. We’re making friends. Trying to settle down and learn how to live this new life.
My powers continue to grow, putting me at greater risk from The Council and their army of wizards. No one wants a manifested demon on Earth, and I’m the closest thing they’ve seen in quite a while. The prior ones took armies and thousands of deaths to take out, and they’re rather eager to get ahead of the mayhem if they can.
More demons on the radar and a trip with Connor expand my understanding of what’s happening around me. I’m starting to think that my life simply isn’t what I thought it had been. Not even remotely.
Can I push through the confusion and fear in my own head while also fighting through the fear and hatred from strangers? I hope so, because new information is coming to me that makes me think that nothing that has happened to me was an accident.
Not even my death.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
I know, right? Not what I expected for the last week of high school. I’m not sure many people plan for their best friends in the entire world to sacrifice them so that they can get good grades and into college. Yet that’s exactly what happened to me.
I was dead for three years, with the demon Aremos killing and sacrificing everyone I’ve ever known or loved. Literally. And now I’m back in the saddle, running my life, with the changes that she left behind still visible. Scales. Eyes like a goat. Talons. Magic. A tail. I’m also living in the most violent city in the world. The Warrens.
Yet I’m still making a go of it. My new roommate, Laurie, and her adorable son, Petey, are with me. We’re making friends. Trying to settle down and learn how to live this new life.
My powers continue to grow, putting me at greater risk from The Council and their army of wizards. No one wants a manifested demon on Earth, and I’m the closest thing they’ve seen in quite a while. The prior ones took armies and thousands of deaths to take out, and they’re rather eager to get ahead of the mayhem if they can.
More demons on the radar and a trip with Connor expand my understanding of what’s happening around me. I’m starting to think that my life simply isn’t what I thought it had been. Not even remotely.
Can I push through the confusion and fear in my own head while also fighting through the fear and hatred from strangers? I hope so, because new information is coming to me that makes me think that nothing that has happened to me was an accident.
Not even my death.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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