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About The Devil’s Necromancer by Alexa Piper
Title: The Devil’s Necromancer
Author: Alexa Piper
Series: Hellbound #1
Genre: LGBTQ+ Urban Fantasy
Lionel, a necromancer and consultant for the Brunswick Police Department, wants nothing to do with immortals. Specifically, he wants nothing to do with Lucifer, who shows up on his doorstep one day with a ridiculous proposal. Lucifer, also known as the Devil, wants Lionel to be his pretend boyfriend. Except the pretend part is something the Devil doesn’t really seem to care for.
Lucifer has read enough romance novels to know that a good dose of forced proximity might be just the thing to get the stubborn necromancer he desires into his bed. The Devil’s plans are soon complicated when Lionel proves more uncooperative and oblivious to love than Lucifer could ever anticipate.
While the Devil wants to claim Lionel, all Lionel wants is to get away from Lucifer. Meanwhile, magic users are being murdered in the city. Lionel cannot escape the implications of those murders for long, and the case soon takes a different turn. Will Lionel be able to escape the Devil’s thrall, or will the necromancer fall for the immortal seducer?
Publisher’s Note: The Devil’s Necromancer contains scenes involving dubious consent that some readers may find offensive.
Excerpt from The Devil’s Necromancer
© 2021
Julia Kent
I had been asleep in my bed. Sleeping in for once was a luxury I had intended to savor. When I got home last night — or this morning, depending on one’s preferred world view — I’d even remembered to pull the curtains closed. It was as close to bliss as I got these days.
Lucifer had rung my doorbell, and in typical Devil style, he hadn’t fucking stopped, just like those religion mongers who go door-to-door too early in the fucking a.m. That perfect cocktail of annoyance was how I knew it was him waking me when I reluctantly crawled out from under the sheets.
Uncaffeinated, I stumbled toward the door of my loft apartment on bare feet, trying to rub the sleep from my eyes. I’d closed the curtains, but they weren’t very good curtains if what you went for was a darkened room, and so there was enough light to see by without getting too blinded by it.
My black Converse shoes lay where I’d pulled them off after a trip to the morgue late last night, and because my eyes were on strike, the shoes almost made me faceplant into the floor, but I narrowly managed to regain my footing by gripping one of the four mismatched chairs around my office slash dining table. It skidded and screeched a little, but I remained about ninety percent upright.
After cursing the Devil at my door, I opened said door, and before I could even tell the Devil to fuck right off and only come back with coffee, he handed me a white poodle with a determined shove. I knew that poodle. I’d given it to the Devil a year ago, not ideal, but better than the alternatives. It occurred to me that I should really learn to lock my door chain and buy ear plugs.
“What the fuck is this?” I asked.
“What does it look like, Nelly? I’m giving you your Soul back, and you owe me a favor in return.”
He had to be kidding. Granted, with his looks, sapphire eyes, alabaster skin, ink black hair, and a smile that made people urgently reach for fig leaves, he could get away with a lot, but I had given him the damn cursed poodle to be fucking rid of it. There was just no way in hell I was going to take the canine back.
“And how does that follow? Walk me through it, Lucy. All logic-like.” The dapper Devil shrugged. “Tiamat is dropping by for a visit, and I need you to be my human necromancer boyfriend. She likes it when we mingle. With humans. She says it keeps the immortal mind humble, and I don’t know a better human to keep me humble than you.”
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Alexa Piper writes steamy romance that ranges from light to dark, from straight to queer. She’s also a coffee addict. Alexa loves writing stories that make her readers laugh and fall in love with the characters in them.
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