From the author of the New York Times bestselling Iscariot comes an award-winning novel that poses the question: if a demon came up to you and offered to tell his story, would you listen?
Clayβs life has reached a standstill. Recently divorced, he spends his days drifting from his drab apartment to his equally lackluster job as an editor for a small Boston press and back again. His dreary routine has left him mired in a seemingly meaningless existence, until the night he meets Lucianβa demonβand everything changes. With the simple words, βIβm going to tell you my story, and youβre going to write it down and publish it,β Lucian catapults Clayβs mundane life into turmoil.
What begins as an intriguing mystery soon spirals into a chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucianβs dark tale of love, ambition, and graceβonly to discover the demonβs story is strikingly similar to his own. And the only thing that matters now is finding out how the story endsβ¦