Description:
The new book from Kylie Lee Baker, the critically acclaimed, USA TODAY bestselling, New York Times Top 100, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng and Japanese Gothic.
A riveting, darkly humorous, and deeply strange story of three roommates whose everyday struggle to survive in New York is complicated by the intestine-eating demon who haunts their apartment.
Leni was kidnapped and almost sacrificed to the devil as a child, but now she's perfectly fine. Aside from the fact that she has three reflections in the mirror...and one of them wants her to poison people.
Emerson was a leading heart surgeon until The Incident that left his patient dead. Now he's too sick to work, keeps finding severed fingers in his water bottles, and is followed around by a faceless Girl Scout with a creaky red wagon.
Jasper is a line cook with a criminal record, just trying to keep his chosen family together. Sure, he sees a man in the shadows who likes the taste of blood, but he's very good at ignoring that. He would do anything for Leni and Emerson. Anything.
They're fine. They're normal. They're roommates making it work in New York City.
That is, until a demon leaves his sigil on their wall.
Now, they have seven days to bring Sychar a sacrifice, or he'll tear off their skin. Who knew demon-slaying wasn't a valid excuse to miss work? Why are murder supplies so expensive? Just how is a low-income household supposed to afford a human sacrifice?
As their personal ghosts grow louder and Sychar's deadline draws nearer, Leni, Emerson, and Jasper discover just how far they'll go to protect each other.
For readers who love:
- Grady Hendrix and Stephen King
- Morally gray protector
- Haunted apartment
- Found family in danger
- Demon-slaying
- Darkly funny, deeply haunted stories
Brief description: Kylie Lee Baker is the author of young adult and adult novels. Her writing is informed by her heritage (Japanese, Chinese, and Irish) and her experiences living abroad. She has a B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish and an M.S. in Library and Information Science. Visit her online at www.kylieleebaker.com.
Review Quotes: "A bloody, visceral feast of a novel that is both achingly tender and horrifyingly addictive. Absolutely obsessed. Hell to Pay will make you confront the demons in your walls and the ones caged by your bones in a story so perfectly relevant and excellently told."
--CG Drews, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In
--Ruby Dixon, New York Times bestselling author of Ice Planet Barbarians