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Three weeks after taking on a piece of the most dangerous contract in existence, I still haven’t figured out how to put it on a résumé.
‘Crossroads demon’ doesn’t belong on a LinkedIn profile. Neither does ‘I read the fine print branded into my clients’ skin.’ But that’s my job now. I traded my corner office for enforcing bargains between desperate mortals and the lwa who intend to collect.
My newest client is a pediatric surgeon who promised a goddess anything if she saved her son. Erzulie accepted, and the bargain has taken possession of her. The contract is airtight. It’s also founded on a lie.
I found a clause buried in the Primordial Compact, the ancient law governing every lwa contract, that could void the bargain. The problem is, no one has seen the authority behind that law in centuries. If I invoke it before a panel of gods and fail, I could lose more than the case. Papa Legba keeps reminding me that I’m supposed to broker these deals, not destroy them, and Erzulie has no patience for anyone who questions her.
I summoned Kalfou to teach me how to control my new magic. Instead, he appeared uninvited in my bedroom and made an already difficult situation worse. He’s one of the lwa who stole the power I’m trying to reclaim, which means I need him. It doesn’t explain why I keep watching him across the courtroom. I spent twenty years refusing to let emotion interfere with a case, yet Kalfou gets past every defense I have.
My grandmère never warned me that becoming a crossroads demon would force me to choose between my conscience and my right to practice. She also failed to mention that the gods punish anyone willing to let a demon argue on their behalf.
I’ve spent two decades winning in rooms where I wasn’t expected to succeed. This courtroom may belong to the gods, but I’m still the same attorney. Even if the Compact I’m relying on has already been stripped of its power once. Even if the god I should keep at a distance is becoming the one person I want beside me.
For readers of Kim Harrison’s The Hollows and Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series, Terms & Damnation is a sharp, sexy urban fantasy where contract law collides with lwa politics—and every bargain has a price.
Genre: Horror
‘Crossroads demon’ doesn’t belong on a LinkedIn profile. Neither does ‘I read the fine print branded into my clients’ skin.’ But that’s my job now. I traded my corner office for enforcing bargains between desperate mortals and the lwa who intend to collect.
My newest client is a pediatric surgeon who promised a goddess anything if she saved her son. Erzulie accepted, and the bargain has taken possession of her. The contract is airtight. It’s also founded on a lie.
I found a clause buried in the Primordial Compact, the ancient law governing every lwa contract, that could void the bargain. The problem is, no one has seen the authority behind that law in centuries. If I invoke it before a panel of gods and fail, I could lose more than the case. Papa Legba keeps reminding me that I’m supposed to broker these deals, not destroy them, and Erzulie has no patience for anyone who questions her.
I summoned Kalfou to teach me how to control my new magic. Instead, he appeared uninvited in my bedroom and made an already difficult situation worse. He’s one of the lwa who stole the power I’m trying to reclaim, which means I need him. It doesn’t explain why I keep watching him across the courtroom. I spent twenty years refusing to let emotion interfere with a case, yet Kalfou gets past every defense I have.
My grandmère never warned me that becoming a crossroads demon would force me to choose between my conscience and my right to practice. She also failed to mention that the gods punish anyone willing to let a demon argue on their behalf.
I’ve spent two decades winning in rooms where I wasn’t expected to succeed. This courtroom may belong to the gods, but I’m still the same attorney. Even if the Compact I’m relying on has already been stripped of its power once. Even if the god I should keep at a distance is becoming the one person I want beside me.
For readers of Kim Harrison’s The Hollows and Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series, Terms & Damnation is a sharp, sexy urban fantasy where contract law collides with lwa politics—and every bargain has a price.
Genre: Horror
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