Last updated on 09/03/2026
When staying late at the office leads to witnessing an exorcism, Brie Benson’s mundane life takes a hellish turn…literally.
After her parents’ death, twenty-seven-year-old Brie has mastered the art of compartmentalization to survive her mind-numbing routine as a receptionist at a life insurance company. But when she accidentally catches her hot, uptight boss, Luke, performing an exorcism on Debra from accounting, her carefully ordered world implodes.
Swearing Brie to secrecy, Luke reveals he’s from a line of demon hunters and that demonic activity is spiking. But when her emotional support coworker vanishes, Brie is determined to find her. With nothing left to lose, she convinces Luke to let her join his rescue mission.
The problem? Their destination is hell. And the entrance is in Times Square.
Now Brie and Luke must navigate a corporate underworld of monsters and bureaucratic nightmares while racing to save their colleague and repair a tearing veil between worlds. All before their growing feelings become irrelevant and hell claims them forever.
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Review:
This was so much fun! I mean, the title grabbed me first–who among us who has been employed in the time of work emails wouldn’t *love* to start one (or one hundred) of them like that? Then finding out our MCs are taking a road trip–through literal hell–and yeah. You’d have to pry my ereader from my cold dead hands to stop me from reading this book.
Fortunately, it lived up to my hopes! Brie is such a fun heroine. At first it’s mostly self depreciation for the reader’s benefit–because she’s actually neck deep in her own trauma and keeps herself walled off from people she might come to care about (except one, who then is the reason the book happens)–but once her journey with Luke begins, more and more characters get to benefit from her snarky ‘tude. There may have been some snort laughing going on over here–I will neither confirm nor deny.
Luke has his own trauma–and secrets–making their romance an incredibly slow burn one, but I was okay with that. They had a world to save, after all. (Though OMG, what they *actually* did to save the world? Yeah, that made me LOL for sure.) I really enjoyed all the twists and turns the author threw at us (and them) throughout the book, and the epilogue was *chef’s kiss.* I will absolutely be looking for more from her in the future!
Rating: 5 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.