Release
Date: February
5th, 2016
Hell To
Pay Synopsis
The contract was destroyed and Tom's soul saved from Hell.
Or so they thought.
Demon deal-maker, Saul, and his mortal lover, Thomas Ives, find themselves on the run when the other demons take none too kindly to Saul's bending of the rules. With the denizens of Hell on their heels, Saul and Tom must fight to stay one step ahead, knowing that if they're caught there's only one direction they're headed: down.
When Heaven decides to get involved, Saul's actions are no longer a mere bureaucratic misdemeanour but the basis of a factional confrontation. And now only one question remains: to whom does Tom's soul truly belong?
Demon deal-maker, Saul, and his mortal lover, Thomas Ives, find themselves on the run when the other demons take none too kindly to Saul's bending of the rules. With the denizens of Hell on their heels, Saul and Tom must fight to stay one step ahead, knowing that if they're caught there's only one direction they're headed: down.
When Heaven decides to get involved, Saul's actions are no longer a mere bureaucratic misdemeanour but the basis of a factional confrontation. And now only one question remains: to whom does Tom's soul truly belong?
21st
Century Demon Synopsis
It should have been an easy job: a contract signed and a new soul
earmarked for Hell. But when suave demon deal-maker Saul chooses nerdy Thomas
Ives as his next target, events take an unexpected turn. The lines between
business transaction and pleasure blur, and Saul must decide whether he cares
more for his professional reputation or the soul he just condemned to eternal
damnation.
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Excerpt
BY HELL, IT’S you! Do you have any idea how close you just came to a
fiery death? Not sure how you found me, but since you’re here, I guess you’d
better come in. Quickly, quickly. And shut the door behind you. Sorry for the
abrupt greeting… actually, no, I’m not. If you had any idea what the sweet boy
and I have been through these past few months you’d know better than to sneak
up on us. It’s not easy being on the run. Sure, it looks exciting in all the
films—action, adventure, amorous assignations—but I can tell you now that’s all
a crock of shit. Well, maybe not the amorous assignations—we do have our fair
share of those and no denying it—but the rest of it…. In reality, a life on the
run is tiring, dirty, and not the least bit soppily romantic—the boy and I are
no Bonnie and Clyde. And perhaps we should be grateful for that.
We’ve been holed up in this nondescript—or do I mean derelict?—hotel for
three days now, and neither of us has set so much as a single foot outside
since we checked in. We order takeaway or room service when we need to eat, and
the sign perpetually hanging from the door handle is clear for all to read: Do
Not Disturb. (Though obviously you chose to ignore that simple
instruction, so maybe that piece of cardboard isn’t as effective as it’s
cracked up to be.) Soon we’ll have to move on again. The grace period seems to
be five days. Any longer than that and we risk being picked up. The first place
we went to we stayed for a week, and on the evening of the seventh day—ironic,
I know—the big boss sent us a visitor in the guise of a pizza delivery boy. It
got pretty ugly. I mean, I could all but feel the flames
kissing the soles of my feet as we high-tailed it out of there.
Who’d have ever guessed it would come to this? Well, you were there that
day; you know what I mean. It was supposed to be a simple mark, a deal no
different from any other. When I singled him out, I planned on getting a
signature for his soul, making good on my end of the bargain, and then moving
swiftly along. How was I to know the strange effect that beautiful, innocent
nerd in the Marvel T-shirt was going to have on me?
About the author
NICKI J. MARKUS was born in England in 1982, but now lives in
Adelaide, South Australia with her husband. She has loved both reading and
writing from a young age and is also a keen linguist, having studied several
foreign languages.
Nicki launched her writing career in 2011. She published works through
Wicked Nights Publishing and Silver Publishing before both companies closed
their doors. She is now self-publishing some of her works, including the
novella Time Keepers and the fantasy novel The
Ragnarök Chronicles.
Nicki also writes M/M fiction under the alternate pen name of ASTA
IDONEA and has had several short stories published by Wayward Ink
Publishing. She is currently working on her first M/M novella.
Nicki works as a freelance editor and proofreader, and in her spare time
she enjoys: music, theatre, cinema, photography, sketching, and cross stitch.
She also loves history, folklore and mythology, pen-palling, and travel.
Social links:
Website: http://www.nickijmarkus.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickiJMarkus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickiJMarkus
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