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The Demon Next Door
(2026)(The eighth book in the Forty, Fired, & Fighting Demons series)
A novel by Brenda Trim
I found a message carved into my basement floor this morning.
It wasn’t a grocery list. Or a passive-aggressive note from a neighbor. Instead, it was an interdimensional inscription in a language older than Hell's entire organizational structure. And it was left by something that opened a door my magic couldn't find. This entity simply did what it came to do and disappeared without a seam.
Vesper is being cryptic about it, which means he knows more than he's saying. Victoria can't identify the signature, which has never happened in her years on the council. And Zane has the look he gets when he's already three steps ahead of the problem, and none of the steps are good.
Turns out someone ancient has been watching me since the moment I fully integrated the Echo. It seems as if there's a woman who's been holding a failing seal together alone for three thousand years, and I'm apparently the reason she's been sending signals into the dark. Turns out Hell was built as a buffer zone and not a punishment system, which explains a lot and makes me significantly angrier about everything that happened inside it.
Also there are people who think the responsible solution here is to kill me before I become someone else's problem.
Let's not forget I have a renovation business to run. There's a subfloor situation at the Kowalski house, and my contractor boyfriend is starting to resent that I say yes to things without calling him first.
Believe me, I understand where he's coming from.
But there's a message in my basement with a blank space in the center, and everything I've learned about dimensional architecture tells me exactly what goes there.
I'm starting to think I've been building toward this since before I knew what I was doing. Either that, or this entire enterprise is about to finally crumble around me.
Genre: Mystery
It wasn’t a grocery list. Or a passive-aggressive note from a neighbor. Instead, it was an interdimensional inscription in a language older than Hell's entire organizational structure. And it was left by something that opened a door my magic couldn't find. This entity simply did what it came to do and disappeared without a seam.
Vesper is being cryptic about it, which means he knows more than he's saying. Victoria can't identify the signature, which has never happened in her years on the council. And Zane has the look he gets when he's already three steps ahead of the problem, and none of the steps are good.
Turns out someone ancient has been watching me since the moment I fully integrated the Echo. It seems as if there's a woman who's been holding a failing seal together alone for three thousand years, and I'm apparently the reason she's been sending signals into the dark. Turns out Hell was built as a buffer zone and not a punishment system, which explains a lot and makes me significantly angrier about everything that happened inside it.
Also there are people who think the responsible solution here is to kill me before I become someone else's problem.
Let's not forget I have a renovation business to run. There's a subfloor situation at the Kowalski house, and my contractor boyfriend is starting to resent that I say yes to things without calling him first.
Believe me, I understand where he's coming from.
But there's a message in my basement with a blank space in the center, and everything I've learned about dimensional architecture tells me exactly what goes there.
I'm starting to think I've been building toward this since before I knew what I was doing. Either that, or this entire enterprise is about to finally crumble around me.
Genre: Mystery
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