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Hades's Open House
(2027)(The ninth book in the Forty, Fired, & Fighting Demons series)
A novel by Brenda Trim
Forty years old, retired from the corporate grind, and the only person standing between my island and the things that claw through the dark. It's not the second act I expected, but most days I'll take it.
I've sealed gates intent on swallowing the coast and folded a four-thousand-year-old-demon into the bones of the world. I even let Zane fix the broken step on my porch—which, for a woman who's spent her whole life keeping the exits clear, is basically accepting a marriage proposal. So I did the unthinkable and let myself want after.
That's when the door I didn't open bloomed in my basement, frost spelling out a promise in handwriting I shouldn't have been able to read: I remember everything she knows.
Now something old and homesick is turning Saltcliff thin—cold as the bottom of the sea, leaving everything it touches standing and wrong. And it isn't trying to break in.
It's already here, and it's wearing my best friend like a key.
Every day Astra burns a little brighter and belongs to me a little less. The demon next door, who runs Hell like a man who's forgotten it was ever a prison, would be delighted to let her go quietly. Tidy. Efficient. One less complication.
I can save her or I can close the door for good, unless I'm willing to pay—the way I always do.
Mimi's loading Bessie. Zane won't let me face this alone. And the only way through is holding a door open with everything I love balanced on the other side, while trusting someone else to walk through it.
The last door was never supposed to be mine to close.
Hell's holding an open house.
Everyone's invited.
Genre: Mystery
I've sealed gates intent on swallowing the coast and folded a four-thousand-year-old-demon into the bones of the world. I even let Zane fix the broken step on my porch—which, for a woman who's spent her whole life keeping the exits clear, is basically accepting a marriage proposal. So I did the unthinkable and let myself want after.
That's when the door I didn't open bloomed in my basement, frost spelling out a promise in handwriting I shouldn't have been able to read: I remember everything she knows.
Now something old and homesick is turning Saltcliff thin—cold as the bottom of the sea, leaving everything it touches standing and wrong. And it isn't trying to break in.
It's already here, and it's wearing my best friend like a key.
Every day Astra burns a little brighter and belongs to me a little less. The demon next door, who runs Hell like a man who's forgotten it was ever a prison, would be delighted to let her go quietly. Tidy. Efficient. One less complication.
I can save her or I can close the door for good, unless I'm willing to pay—the way I always do.
Mimi's loading Bessie. Zane won't let me face this alone. And the only way through is holding a door open with everything I love balanced on the other side, while trusting someone else to walk through it.
The last door was never supposed to be mine to close.
Hell's holding an open house.
Everyone's invited.
Genre: Mystery
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