Miserere: An Autumn Tale
Exiled exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates. Catarina intends to lead the Fallen's hordes out of Hell and into the parallel dimension of Woerld, Heaven's frontline of defense between Earth and Hell.
When Lucian refuses to help his sister, she imprisons and cripples him, but Lucian learns that Rachael, the lover he betrayed and abandoned in Hell, is dying from a demonic possession. Determined to rescue Rachael from the demon he unleashed on her soul, Lucian flees his sister, but Catarina's wrath isn't so easy to escape.
In the end, she will force him once more to choose between losing Rachael or opening the Hell Gates so the Fallen's hordes may overrun Earth, their last obstacle before reaching Heaven's Gates.
"Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, court intrigues and battles to the death. It's also (and this is the important part) really, really good." – Alex Bledsoe, author of Dark Jenny and The Sword-Edged Blonde
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Teresa Frohock
Teresa Frohock had a very exciting life when she was young. Through no fault or habit of her own, she survived escapades that would have destroyed a lesser mortal. Now she lives a quiet life in Reidsville, N.C. with her beautiful husband and daughter and their four cats.
Her days are spent at her job in the library. Her nights, however, are devoted to stepping over the threshold into darkness where she exorcises her demons by turning them into words.
