I am so happy to be welcoming Rae Devine to Novel Kicks and the blog tour for her book, The Devil’s Debt.

The Devil’s Debt is Episode Five of The Seven Gates, a short, high-heat dark paranormal romance series of vengeance, obsession and underworld power, featuring ritualised dominance and morally black and grey demons.

Ruthless. Sacred. Beautifully inevitable.

In the quiet hours of the Underworld, even faith begins to falter.

Lucien Vale – recruiter, collector of broken souls and reluctant heavy hand of Hell – has been stripped of his immortality through an act of betrayal from someone he once loved. Yet still loyal and devoted to Hell’s Queen, he accompanies her to locate a fallen prince of the Church whose devotion has long since curdled into complacency.

A cardinal who has heard every confession.
Forgiven every sin.
And slowly stopped believing any of it matters.

Every path leads back to the Devil’s bride.

Bella Blackwood. Gatekeeper. Devourer of sin.
A woman who turns confession into spectacle and indulgence into judgment.

The cardinal receives Bella and Lucien at the abbey with indifference and wariness.

But in their presence he is faced with a new kind of ritual.
Temptation.
And a force designed to test the limits of his faith.

At the Gates, apathy risks becoming the most damning sin of all.

Desire awakens what indifference tried to bury.
And Hell collects its debts with patient precision.

These stories are sins – brief, potent and cumulative.

Each episode is designed to be devoured in one sitting.
Seven Gates. One descent.

For readers who crave gothic atmosphere, infernal courts and dangerously seductive power.

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⚠️ Contains explicit sexual content, power exchange, violence and dark religious imagery.

*****

Having been stripped of his immortality through a betrayal, Lucien accompanies Bella as they pay a visit to a priest who is struggling with his devotion.

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