*"I would say it's a pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding,
but truly, I only anticipate the delights of destroying thy
happiness...."
*Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family
history--that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns
out Prosper's great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather
made--and then broke--a contract with a malefactor, a demon who
exchanges fortune for eternal servitude. And, weirdly enough,
four-thousand-year-old Alastor isn't exactly the forgiving type. The
fiend has reawakened with one purpose--to destroy the family whose
success he ensured and who then betrayed him. With only days to break
the curse and banish Alastor back to the demon realm, Prosper is playing
unwilling host to the fiend, who delights in tormenting him with nasty
insults and constant attempts to trick him into a contract. Yeah,
Prosper will take his afterlife without a side of eternal servitude,
thanks. But with the help of his long-lost uncle, Barnabas, and his
daughter, Nell, a witch-in-training, it seems like Prosper has at least
a fighting chance of ridding himself of Alastor before the demon escapes
and wreaks havoc on his family.
Little does Prosper know, the malefactor's control over his body grows
stronger with each passing night and there's a lot Alastor isn't telling
his dim-witted (but admittedly strong-willed) human host...
From #1 New York Times best-selling author Alexandra Bracken comes a
tale of betrayal and revenge, of old hurts passed down from generation
to generation. Can you ever fully right a wrong, ever truly escape your
history? Or will Prosper and Alastor be doomed to repeat it?
