Possession Is Nine Tenths of the Pain
(2026)(The first book in the Ninth Hell series)
A novel by Aly Tatum
My body isn't a temple. It's a haunted house, and the ghosts are my own joints.
I've spent twenty years being told my pain is imaginary. Growing pains. Fibromyalgia. Stress. Take the pills, Nyla, and stop being dramatic. So when a demon possessed me to steal something for his employer, I figured he was just the latest in a long line of things that don't believe me.He made it three heartbeats into my head before he started screaming.
Because possession runs both ways, and the first thing a body-snatcher learns from the inside is that I was never lying. Every ache has a source. That source has been grafted to my soul since I was six years old, siphoning my agony around the clock, refining it, and selling it to the most powerful syndicate in the underworld.
My pain isn't a symptom. It's a product line.
The bad news: the same curse bleeding me dry traps the demons as firmly as it traps me. The good news: the demons in question have opinions.
The strategist who broke into my brain by accident and immediately filed a formal complaint about my chair.
The mountain of scarred stone who mapped my pain like a treasure hunt and promised to tear out the throat of anyone who touched me.
The chaos gremlin who stole my heating pad, declared it a prisoner of war, and thinks my gallows humor is a love language.
Their job was to get out. Instead they're learning my pain maps, guarding my sleep, and quietly declaring war on a corporate empire that has been farming women like me for decades. Somewhere between "get out of my head" and a rooftop under two worlds, I stopped wanting them to leave.
They say possession is nine tenths of the law. Mine came with nine tenths of the pain. The last tenth is three demons who decided the asset they were sent to retrieve is the only thing worth burning a realm for.
🖤 Why choose / reverse harem: three demons, no MM…yet
🌶️ Explicit heat, consent on the page
🧡 Honest chronic illness rep
🔥 Touch her and die (they took that personally)
💀 Morally grey, possessive, occasionally unlawful
��� Darkly funny FMC, found family
Book 1 of the Ninth Hell Trilogy. This book ends on a cliffhanger.
18+. Explicit scenes, violence, chronic illness themes, and a mother with a great deal of explaining to do.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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