4.5 Stars
From USA Today
bestselling author Sierra Simone comes an ALL-NEW standalone romance in the
Priest universe.
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Birdie Cooper has nothing left.
Just one
moment of weakness seven years ago―and she lost her job, her church, her only
friend. Now she's working nights at a gas station to scrape together a living
and a way to care for her sister, completely alone and separated even from the
art that gave her life meaning.
Ryan Bell has never forgotten his first obsession.
He's been
trying to find the tremblingly shy lecturer from his senior year of college
after she abruptly disappeared after their first and only kiss. So when he
comes upon a statue of Lucifer carved in Ryan's own likeness, two things become
starkly apparent.
One: he
knows how to find her now. And two: he's been haunting Birdie Cooper's memory
as much as she's been haunting his.
Ryan
can't offer love―or even an apology―but he can offer her a bargain, one crafted
first and foremost to free him from his punishing obsession with her. If Birdie
agrees to be his in every way for a single year, then he'll pay for her
sister's care for as long as she's alive. And what does Birdie have left to
lose anyway? The forbidden fruit is her only chance at salvation.
Unfortunately
for Birdie, she might just be the only chance for his...
Step back into the intoxicating Priest universe with Devil: a brand-new, standalone dark
romance from the inimitable Sierra Simone.
Tropes
• Dark
Taboo Romance
• Contemporary
Romance
• Religious
Doubt/Confusion
• Erotica
• R++ High Heat
Sierra is a voracious reader of all things including the smuttiest smut, young adult, piles of non-fiction for research, and everything Bill Bryson (especially on audio).
She loves writing the dirtiest things that she can think of, King Arthur, sparkling water, Tarot, coffee, leggings, and learning new words daily.
Her previous jobs have included firing ceramics, teaching living history lessons in one-room school house in full, 1904-approved school marm attire, and working as a librarian for several years—not in that order
She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, two children, and two giant dogs. (And two cats, but they're so naughty we don't talk about them.)
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