Not Today, Satan
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
“This romantic fantasy proves as thrilling as it is delightful." —Kirkus Reviews
“Hilarious, heartwarming, and wildly fun, Not Today, Satan is a voicey romp by an author to watch. With equal parts humor, romance, and adventure, this story will have readers laughing, swooning, and rapidly turning pages.” —L.E. Flynn, USA Today bestselling author of All Eyes on Her
I’m destined to rule the damned…not fall for one.
Think your life is hell?
Try being the Prince of Darkness’s only daughter—a seventeen-year-old born and raised in Hell, destined to inherit the throne, and constantly enduring the (literal) eternal moans and screams of souls who had it coming.
The only thing worse than ruling the Underworld is working here. Day after day, it’s me, a bunch of demons who are too intimidated by my dad to befriend me, and an endless lineup of sinners. Until Nathan Reynolds shows up, with a smile that could turn brimstone to butterflies, claiming he’s innocent.
I don’t question the system; it's never wrong. But Nate’s pleading eyes have me doubting everything I’ve ever known.
So, I’m going to do the one thing I’m not supposed to do: I’m going to help him break out. Even if it means showing Nate exactly who I am. Metaphorical horns and all.
Because if we don’t make it out of here?
We’re not just damned. We’re doomed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The devil's daughter teams up with a ghost to uncover secrets surrounding their respective pasts in this irreverent romantic drama from Joyce (Dealing in Deception, for adults). Seventeen-year-old Devica dreads the day she turns 18, after which her father—the devil—will retire, and Devica will assume his role as ruler of Hell. She's processing the incoming souls of sinners when she meets Nate, a 17-year-old human killed by police at the scene of a murder for which he claims he was framed. After Devica learns that her assumed dead demon mother is actually human—and, what's more, alive in Los Angeles—Devica decides to help Nate break out of Hell, ostensibly so he can prove his innocence, though Devica secretly plots to search for her mom along Nate's quest for redemption. The teens fall for each other as they confront their deepest fears while fighting their way through the underworld. But Devica is unprepared for what she and Nate find on Earth—and what she must do to prevent Hell from reclaiming them both. A buoyant romantic subplot and Devica's introspective yearning to experience more than what she believes the underworld has to offer juxtapose unflinching depictions of the horrors that the white-cued protagonists encounter throughout their journey, which recalls elements of Dante's Inferno. Ages 14–up.
