Hell Bent

By Calista Lynne

Celebrity crush? Optional. The girl in the rearview mirror? Mandatory.

When Jules Tolliver’s favorite movie star dies, she responds with admirable composure: she summons a demon named Ash and kidnaps him into an afterlife road trip to bring the man back. Tires screech, realms blur, and one spectacular wrong turn lands them in Purgatory—a bureaucratic nightmare staffed by cheeky Fates, feral monsters, and creatures who absolutely do not respect personal space.

Then Ash gets kidnapped. Because this is Purgatory, and it thrives on inconvenience.

One shady backroom bargain later, Jules kidnaps a beautiful girl named Faith as collateral—and immediately discovers a devastating new truth about herself: she is very into women. Especially this one. Especially the way Faith looks at her like she’s dangerous and interesting and maybe worth trusting. It’s a terrible time for a sexual awakening, made worse when Faith is left behind and Jules drives on, haunted by the memory of her smile and the heat she didn’t see coming.

With the Fates playing games, demons circling, and theology colliding messily with fan culture, Jules finds herself at the crossroads of obsession, desire, and choice. Saving a dead celebrity suddenly feels less urgent than figuring out whether the thing she actually lost was her common sense—or her Faith, watching her disappear down the road.