Demon Veil

Carmella Santiago clawed her way to the top of the federal prosecutor's office on blackmail, manipulation, and a soul she was more than willing to sell. Then she went off the Hanover Street Bridge into the black water of the Patapsco - and kept falling. For twelve hundred years.

She wakes on a slab in the Baltimore morgue, a Y-incision already drawn on her skin, with no memory of who she was. What comes back with her is worse than amnesia: she can see the dead things wearing human faces. The corpse-grins under a nurse's smile. The rot beneath her own boss's tailored suit. And her boss, it turns out, is no man at all.

Given a second life and a blood pact she doesn't remember signing, Carmella has one chance to earn back her soul - and she's failing. The darkness she thought she left in Hell is still inside her, clawing to get out. The only things anchoring her to the light are a fierce best friend who refuses to leave, two children who call her Auntie, and a golden-eyed being who has loved her across every lifetime she's ever lived - and who has wagered his own soul on her redemption.

But the King of Hell doesn't lose quietly. He'll take everyone she loves to prove she was always his. And when he does, Carmella will have to walk back into Hell itself, armed with nothing but a prosecutor's mind, a demon's fury, and the oldest loophole in any contract ever written.

She sold her soul to win once.

This time, she's going to win it back.

DEMON VEIL is a standalone supernatural thriller about damnation, redemption, and the family we choose - perfect for readers who like their heroines morally gray, their romance eternal, and their devils outsmarted in the fine print.