After cutting all ties to her human family, Allay has found
a home of sorts in New York.
Running the bar, The Den on C, allows her to feel connected
to humans, while repaying the nourishment they give her with
what all good bartenders provide; an ear to listen, and a
small relief from pain and sorrow.
She's under the protection of the demon Vex (who himself is
posing as the leader of a proselytizing spiritualist
movement), but that isn't enough to keep her safe.
Newly made demons and those who have been around for
centuries find her particular blend of human emotion with
demon energy as savory and seductive as a full-course dinner.
And when a New York cabbie steps between Allay and a hungry
demon, she can do nothing but bring him under her
protection, despite the hunger he sparks within.
Vex's protection isn't free, she pays for it with actions
that are harder and harder to justify to her human conscience.
Mostly she keeps her head down, tending bar and sipping
emotion, but when her demon-sister Shock arrives needing
help and protection she has no choice but to take her in.
Her carefully built world is about to get complicated.
There's a demon-killer in town. It's untraceable, invisible
until the being is too close to escape. And Shock appears to
be next on the list.
Even worse, a choice she can no longer evade is barreling
toward her life of contrived simplicity. Take a life, or die.
S. L. Wright's uniquely-crafted world of urban fantasy adds
a fascinating spin to what is at heart a book about
relationships and self-knowledge. No heavy-handed moralizing
though, just a fun, fast read with plenty to chew on before
the much-awaited next in the series comes out.
After accidentally stealing the life force of a dying demon,
Allay became the only human-demon hybrid in existence.
Demons feed on human emotions, so Allay decided the safest
way to satisfy this need-and still retain some semblance of
her humanity-was to open a bar. Here she can drink from, and
ease, her patrons' pain, which has helped her to stay under
the demon radar...until now.
When Allay is attacked
and nearly killed by another demon, a human comes to her
rescue. Theo Ram is tall, handsome, and mortal-and Allay
feels a connection to him she didn't think she'd ever know.
But that bond is tested when the demon community in New York
begins to rise up, and two opposing clans fight for power.
Now Allay is caught in the middle, and she must decide where
her loyalties lie.
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