Bat Out of Hell (Promised to the Demons #2) - Lidiya Foxglove Page 0,72
gifts for his turns as Macbeth, Hamlet, and Iago, he had finally taken this break to pay his respects. To give their master the funeral he would never have. He had paid a handsome sum to hire this crew, but it felt like the only way to truly get any closure.
They all wiped their tears, Jameson and his wife and their oldest friend Uram. Jameson and Gillian had brought their two lovely winged little girls with them, now nine and seven years old, and they spent the day toasting and drinking to Lord Variel the Devourer, sharing old stories of their favorite moments when he pretended to hate them but actually gave them some small kindness, of working in the castle, of the feasts they had of the game he caught for holidays, and the way he had started to change as he fell in love with a sweet little toad shifter.
“It really is a shame,” Jameson sighed.
“Oh, poor Miss Jenny,” Gillian said, wiping her tears. “And Bevan, too. They were so happy.”
“What happened, Mama?”
“They died on that island?”
“I like to think they didn’t,” Jameson said, sighing into his cup of rum. “I like to think they’re there still and we just can’t get to them. But a decade has passed, and no one ever heard from them again.”
“No one?”
“Well, we check in with their families,” Gillian said. “Jenny’s warlock, and Piers’ clan, and Lord Sartel.” A new demon had claimed Variel’s abandoned castle.
Just in case this was true, they set off flares to let Variel and his comrades know that the ship was in reach. But after a few days, the island remained as dark as Cash said it had always been, and they pulled up anchor and sailed home, having cast flowers into the sea.
Remember when Helena said that they didn’t know where Bevan was for twelve years? You think I forgot? I did not! I probably forgot some other things. But at least I didn’t forget that.
Unless plans change (and you never do know), the next book will be the last of the entire saga of the realms of Sinistral, Etherium and Wyrd. It started with the light-hearted standalone Tempted by Demons, which I decided on a whim to set in a world I used to write about now and then. I dove in more seriously with A Witch Among Warlocks, a four-book series that really started delving into the lives of witches and familiars, vampires and demons and fae. I’ve had so, so much fun following these characters around across many books and it’s all thanks to you that I was able to keep pulling story threads.
If you haven’t read the entire story yet, you can start for free with the Witch Among Warlocks prequel novella, The Wild-Eyed Boys!
In 2021 I’m going to play with a new story world where shifters have been treated cruelly by many humans, magic is much harder to use, dangers lurk at every turn, and three shifter queens have to find their consorts and save their people. One of the fun things about that book is that you’ll meet some of the guys before you know which queen they are fated to be with! Even I might be surprised with how the chemistry develops! You can pre-order it already, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this story of good triumphing. It was the sort of book I just needed this year.
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More Romantic Fantasy from Lidiya!
A Witch Among Warlocks
Prequel: The Wild-Eyed Boys
Book One: The Fairer Hex
Book Two: Boys Over Powers
Book Three: A Fine Necromance
Book Four: Battle of the Hexes
Available in audio!
Finishing School for Faery Brides
Book One: Fae Sworn
Book One: Fae Tempted
Book Three: Fae Bound
Forever in Their Thrall
Book One: Take Me Slowly
Book Two: Love Me Madly
Book Three: Kill Me Softly
Paranormal House Flippers
Book One: Demons in the Bedroom
Book Two: Wolves at the Door
Book Three: Phantom of the Library
Promised to the Demons
Book One: Sympathy for the Demons
Book Two: Bat out of Hell
Book Three: The Devil Went Down to Florida
The Sky and Shadow saga, a reverse harem fantasy with epic world building, dragon shifters, and steam:
Guardians of Sky and Shadow
Complete Series Box Set
Available in audio!
Kingdoms of Sky and Shadow
Complete Series Box Set
Brides of the Sinistral Realms
(Reverse harem paranormal romance)
Book One: Tempted by Demons
Book Two: Captured by Dragons
Book Three: Guarded by Wolves (Coming soon!)
Fairy Tale Heat
Every book is standalone and can be read in any order, although some characters might pop up in later books!
Book One: Beauty and the Goblin King
Book Two: These Wicked Revels
Book Three: Rapunzel and the Dark Prince
Book Four: The Beggar Princess
Book Five: The Goblin Cinderella
Book Six: The Mermaid Bride
Book Seven: Tasting Gretel
Book Eight: Taming Red Riding Hood
Surrender of Sleeping Beauty (Darker romance set in the Fairy Tale Heat universe)
Complete Series Box Set
About the Author
Lidiya Foxglove spends most of her time writing, drinking hot cocoa, messing around on the internet, and drinking tea, before reading about 15 pages of any manga with lots of pretty boys in it, and then falling asleep. Sometimes she also does yoga and gardens, but not as often as she claims.