2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award—Gold Winner
2018 Midwest Book Awards—Gold Winner
2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards—Gold Winner & Finalist
12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards—Gold Winner & Finalist
2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award—Honorable Mention
Agoraphobic Emma Addison is afraid of any place too far from home, afraid of outside. But when one Christmas Eve she inadvertently summons the devil, she opens a door that will not close.
Frantic to appease her unbidden guest, Emma surrenders a cherished family heirloom—a bloodstone carving of Kuan Yin. But this is a terrible mistake. In exchange for her unwitting concession, the devil gifts her a peculiar power he refuses to take back. This power isn't much—not by diabolic standards—but it's plenty enough to spark a craving for the devil's tantalizing promise of more.
And now Emma has some disquieting choices to make. Because if the devil is real, doesn't that mean God is too? But if God is real, then why is the world such a mess and so desperately wanting the very power in her hands?
Emma's choice will exact a price, for it will dismantle her every notion of what is true. But that may prove a gift well worth receiving, and lay bare the genuine meaning of home.
