When The Devil Needed Me
She only wanted to not be alone.
Hell heard her.
Lily has never belonged anywhere. Orphaned, poor, and invisible at Seattle’s elite private school, she learned early that surviving matters more than dreaming. Between public humiliations, a cruel guardian, and a secret that pays her bills, the romance webcomic no one knows she writes, Lily clings to the only thing she can still control: her drawings.
Until, one desperate night, she does the unthinkable.
A ritual.
A wish.
A mistake.
The ground splits open. The air burns. And the protagonist she created with ink and imagination steps out of the page, but the eyes staring back at her aren’t human. They’re ancient. Red. Hungry.
He is a lord of the underworld.
And now he’s bound to her.
Tied together by a bond neither of them fully understands, Lily realizes her life has become a beacon in the dark. Creatures are watching. Shadows are testing the limits. Something on the other side of the “door” wants what she opened.
And him?
He should be the greatest danger of all.
But when hell begins to hunt her, the demon who promised to destroy her is the only one willing to protect her.
Caught between unseen threats, family secrets, and a bond that keeps them alive, and dangerously close.
Lily will have to decide what’s more terrifying:
The forces that want her soul… Or the fact that, for the first time, she isn’t alone.
And maybe never will be again.