The Dame & The Devil
Good girls go to Hell
For the last twelve years, I’ve spent All Hallows Eve hunting the Devil on a dancefloor suspended over the pit of hell.
Those of us considered saints dress in our funereal best and are transported into the hands of sinners disguised as devils. We are their only hope for absolution.
One kiss can seal two fates, for a saint’s lips will save the sinner.
But the Devil lurks among the dancers, and his kiss will damn even the most innocent.
This year, I plan to make him mine.
The Flame & The Fallen
I do what the good girls don’t…
It has been over two decades since I’ve been pulled to the Devil’s dance floor on All Hallows Eve. This time I am a sinner, disguised as a devil and wrapped in a cage only a saint’s lips can unlock. I accepted my fate the moment I signed the divorce papers.
My crimes were worth the punishment.
The world above holds the punishment of the living, below the payment owed to the Devil. God’s rules are strict, but the games of her creatures aren’t fair.
Could salvation come from the damned?
The Devil isn’t the only angelic being dancing over the Pit this All Hallows Eve and the angel that steals me away into the Devil’s palatial home has one demand: Obey.
Perhaps my heavenly host has sins of his own….
The Halo & The Heathen
Miracles Require Sacrifice.
I know the rules of the Devil’s dance. I’ve twirled through his ballroom eight times before, but this All Hallows Eve, I can’t be a sinner’s absolution.
There’s only one way to buy a miracle from God, and my sister needs it badly. For her, I’ll risk descending beneath the Devil’s cathedral to find the one thing I could trade for a dying girl’s life.
Getting to the Devil’s halo is easier than it should be. Escaping the demon who guards it once he’s caught me is another thing altogether. Especially when I start to like the sweet agony of defeat.
But the broken halo glows on its plinth as a constant reminder that I can’t stay.
Escape him. Get the halo. Cross the fields of the damned. Slip past the vulture demons… climb to heaven.
It’s only impossible if I don’t try.