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Hell To Pay
I may be out off Hell, but Hell isn't out me yet...
I'm back in my own world again, this time with Alice in tow and a ton of memories I'd rather forget in a hurry. But hell waits for no one, as I am about to find out...
Despite fighting to keep my brother Josh firmly in the light, I arrive back to find that he has succumbed to whatever form of darkness is within him. He has become just like the monsters I fight so hard to keep down, helped along by Deacon, a demon with sinister intentions and a murderous grudge against humanity. Together they have built a criminal empire to facilitate an evil plan that threatens the very existence of the city...and every soul in it. If I can't stop my brother (by whatever means), hell will most definitely be coming.
Then there's Alice. She's not the same little girl I rescued from Hell anymore. She's something completely different. She also has supernatural powers of the infernal variety. Question is, what is she going to do with those powers? Which side, if any, is she really on? I hope for everyone else's sake it's ours.
And finally we have Lucas. Remember him? The demon I had a...thing going with? Well, that thing is growing, changing into something else that might just scare me more than Hell did, if that's even possible. It's decision time. Do I give myself to him completely, or do I walk away out of fear and lose the only real love I've ever felt?
With everything I care about on the line, one thing is certain...whatever happens, there will be hell to pay.
The Watchers Series
#1 Hell Is Coming (FREE BOOK)
#2 Hell Is Here
#3 Hell And Back
#4 Hell To Pay
Watchers Companion Novels
Bad Grace
Lucas: Origins Of A Demon
I'm back in my own world again, this time with Alice in tow and a ton of memories I'd rather forget in a hurry. But hell waits for no one, as I am about to find out...
Despite fighting to keep my brother Josh firmly in the light, I arrive back to find that he has succumbed to whatever form of darkness is within him. He has become just like the monsters I fight so hard to keep down, helped along by Deacon, a demon with sinister intentions and a murderous grudge against humanity. Together they have built a criminal empire to facilitate an evil plan that threatens the very existence of the city...and every soul in it. If I can't stop my brother (by whatever means), hell will most definitely be coming.
Then there's Alice. She's not the same little girl I rescued from Hell anymore. She's something completely different. She also has supernatural powers of the infernal variety. Question is, what is she going to do with those powers? Which side, if any, is she really on? I hope for everyone else's sake it's ours.
And finally we have Lucas. Remember him? The demon I had a...thing going with? Well, that thing is growing, changing into something else that might just scare me more than Hell did, if that's even possible. It's decision time. Do I give myself to him completely, or do I walk away out of fear and lose the only real love I've ever felt?
With everything I care about on the line, one thing is certain...whatever happens, there will be hell to pay.
The Watchers Series
#1 Hell Is Coming (FREE BOOK)
#2 Hell Is Here
#3 Hell And Back
#4 Hell To Pay
Watchers Companion Novels
Bad Grace
Lucas: Origins Of A Demon
414 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2016
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N.P. Martin
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October 14, 2016
Freddy Carconi's ego is as big as his bank balance, and as dirty given how it was accrued. Those that f@#k with Freddy, get f@#/%d back with: on the thin and bad side of his industrial laundrette roller (a.k.a. the Mangler), the only hard decision being head or feet first. You can therefore well imagine how truly inspiring it is, depending in which circles you roam, if Freddy 'The Mangler' Carconi thought there was something not quite right about you.
To his complete surprise two 'kids' decide to play one-upmanship with the drug lord he is. Planning their reparation before ever their first words were complete, killing everything about them; even "...the fucking roaches that no doubt crawled around their apartments." It takes however, the return of his half dozen goon squad's heads, dropped unceremoniously on his desk and in his lap for him to realise for the first time in his adult life, The Mangler is outclassed, outgunned and running scared.
For Josh and Deacon have their uncompromising goals, namely chaos and destruction. A city and humankind devouring itself from within. The cause, Diablo, an as yet unseen drug capable of the unholiest of heights; installing a symbiosis with the Great Adversary's thoughts. Having finally found a purpose he could embrace, Josh is most willing to follow the darkest paths of no return. Other than as a protector of his twin sister Leia, Josh has never before fealt a real purpose in his life.
As his twin apparently no longer needs his protection, he's become the model student of what ever the darkness wants to teach. Knowingly embracing Deacon's manipulations, even the ones turned toward him, he's allowing his darkness to rule. The only thing with mild cause for contemplation, the foreknowledge that his twin would one day inevitably stand between him and his destiny. Knowing he would choose not to stop, knowing it therefore leaves but one conclusion.
Josh's lover and compatriot, a lieutenant of hell, Deacon was once one of his king's most trusted soldier and advisor. At least that was before Josh's mother and twin sister affected a change in management. Having never sought the crown for himself, manipulation and mayhem are his forte. Answering more so to the Great Adversary, and thus unaffected by the changes in hell, his task continues.
For the throne as Deacon perceives it was never his want, taking away the freedom to roam and play that he so loved. As Josh's twin, Deacon knew that Leia would one day become a problem. One he would have to kill; however the situation calls for at the time. Having an ability to get under Josh's skin, one of the few things that could, Leia might make Josh unpredictable. A situation that would not do if Deacon was to succeed in his task of blackening Josh's soul to the greatest heights of dissension; allowing Josh to become fit for his destined role on the throne.
Strange, as Leia notes, the only place to escape in hell was in her dreams, and yet now in her dreams she cannot escape hell. Leia might have physically returned from Hell but to say that she - her psyche, feelings, memories and dreams - has returned fully would be to say the sun still shines during the darkest of storms. To see the sun you first have to navigate through the maelstrom of thick black clouds, filled with torrential rain, thunder and lightning, and then still have the energy to rise above the horizon of the rest. Between Eblis, the Leviathan, the Great Adversary, Alice's canyon of the Impaled and her witnessed molestation, Leia's nights and thoughts are filled with the miasma of the things she saw, did and experienced.
Three months spent in hell might as well have been three-hundred in the worst environment on earth. As Leia and likely Alice would attest, the latter would still be preferable. Compounding Leia's suffering are the memories of the precious rekindled bonds between a daughter and her mother. That is, to have experienced those forgotten flavours, only to have them cut short again. Everyone has their demons, Leia's just happen to be both spiritual and literal. Without the latter though she would never have survived: now if she can just work out how to live with both. You can take the girl out of hell but you cannot take the hell out of the girl.
Young Alice, having been born as a human in hell, had apparently undergone restrictions to her development. Presumably to keep her body dormant and perhaps, in this way, less noticeable as an object of desire and molestation. Now on earth, emancipated by Leia, her body's restrictions appear to have been lifted. Awakening after two solid days of sleep and rest, dreams surprisingly silent, Alice now finds a stranger staring back at her in the mirror; dazzling Frank, Eva and Leia as much as herself.
Now taller with lustrous silky hair, bewildering eyes, and curves in all the right places, Alice is at first put off at having the same 'lumps' on her chest that Eva and Leia have too. Only that is, until Alice finds the peace, time and acceptance to better explore her new body. Finding places hitherto ignored, exploration by her fingers cause a warm, wet and moist buzz to spread from her lower stomach, after several hours of attention. Becoming yet another experience in a line of many, she comes to know as 'heaven' (pun intended).
Eva, in a motherly gesture of kindness, shocks Alice by reaching out to take her hand in support, and in so doing is drawn into an unknown power. Alice transports Eva's psyche into visions and experiences of the tortures of hell by nothing more than her gaze. Having experienced this miniscule moment of Alice's life, and Leia's past few months, Eva starts to truly understand the horrors of what the young women went through. But this occurrence, happening outside of Alice's conscious control, first creates fear and anxiety over what else Alice might be able to do.
After much consideration Eva choses to break the ice and takes Alice for a stroll, and in so doing, finds perhaps what Alice's emancipation was destined to do. Alice's honed instincts and senses lead them to the den of a monster's kills. Here, after explanation from Eva about the hunting that Watchers do to prevent these innocent's deaths, the six young female souls they stumble upon in the cave, Alice admits its also what she wants to do. Having escaped hell and its monsters her fortitude and commitment that hell should not be in this 'heaven' are secondary to none, shaping Alice's destiny as Eva believes was meant to be. This time there's no shock as instead Alice takes Eva's hand, declaring "we hunt".
Seeking a short break from all the ongoing and new worries, Leia escapes to the woods for a peaceful stroll, renewing her bond with Fang; now a fully grown pup. And perhaps rekindling another lost bond, when she stumbles upon Lucas. Fearful as it sounds to her own ears, it is perhaps love. If nothing else, repeated coital bliss she and her demon experience is sufficient enough for now. Amidst the famous views of gondalo clad canals in Venice, demon Leia experiences her first of many orgasms; as Lucas' intended first date turns to an afternoon of want.
Between nightmares and memories of things past and present, between the responsibility of bringing Alice to earth with her and her as yet unknown extent of power, between a twin brother and his apparent need to destroy everything, and between the nefarious machinations of a demonic lieutenant from the place she just escaped, Leia has more worries than she knows what to do with. But one things for sure, her life as she had once known it is irrevocably gone, changed for the worst; and if she catches those responsible there'll be hell to pay.
Trademarked no-holds-barred language and dictation, combined with the gritty experiences and a captivating storyline, made The Watchers series one of my favourites. These previous trends have continued in Hell to Pay, with some of the next logical steps now taken, entertainment continues in spades. With separate points of view from all the main characters, readers are endulged with a panoramic view of destruction, and in so doing, covering every shade of the plot. Despite the gap between books the saga continues seemlessly and highlights that Neal is much suited to writing fantasy. His aggressive plots never fail to cover the full dynamics of his wide range of character' emotions, endearing them all regardless of which side of the fence their on. Loved this like I loved the rest; do yourselves a favour and grab the series today.
To his complete surprise two 'kids' decide to play one-upmanship with the drug lord he is. Planning their reparation before ever their first words were complete, killing everything about them; even "...the fucking roaches that no doubt crawled around their apartments." It takes however, the return of his half dozen goon squad's heads, dropped unceremoniously on his desk and in his lap for him to realise for the first time in his adult life, The Mangler is outclassed, outgunned and running scared.
For Josh and Deacon have their uncompromising goals, namely chaos and destruction. A city and humankind devouring itself from within. The cause, Diablo, an as yet unseen drug capable of the unholiest of heights; installing a symbiosis with the Great Adversary's thoughts. Having finally found a purpose he could embrace, Josh is most willing to follow the darkest paths of no return. Other than as a protector of his twin sister Leia, Josh has never before fealt a real purpose in his life.
As his twin apparently no longer needs his protection, he's become the model student of what ever the darkness wants to teach. Knowingly embracing Deacon's manipulations, even the ones turned toward him, he's allowing his darkness to rule. The only thing with mild cause for contemplation, the foreknowledge that his twin would one day inevitably stand between him and his destiny. Knowing he would choose not to stop, knowing it therefore leaves but one conclusion.
Josh's lover and compatriot, a lieutenant of hell, Deacon was once one of his king's most trusted soldier and advisor. At least that was before Josh's mother and twin sister affected a change in management. Having never sought the crown for himself, manipulation and mayhem are his forte. Answering more so to the Great Adversary, and thus unaffected by the changes in hell, his task continues.
For the throne as Deacon perceives it was never his want, taking away the freedom to roam and play that he so loved. As Josh's twin, Deacon knew that Leia would one day become a problem. One he would have to kill; however the situation calls for at the time. Having an ability to get under Josh's skin, one of the few things that could, Leia might make Josh unpredictable. A situation that would not do if Deacon was to succeed in his task of blackening Josh's soul to the greatest heights of dissension; allowing Josh to become fit for his destined role on the throne.
Strange, as Leia notes, the only place to escape in hell was in her dreams, and yet now in her dreams she cannot escape hell. Leia might have physically returned from Hell but to say that she - her psyche, feelings, memories and dreams - has returned fully would be to say the sun still shines during the darkest of storms. To see the sun you first have to navigate through the maelstrom of thick black clouds, filled with torrential rain, thunder and lightning, and then still have the energy to rise above the horizon of the rest. Between Eblis, the Leviathan, the Great Adversary, Alice's canyon of the Impaled and her witnessed molestation, Leia's nights and thoughts are filled with the miasma of the things she saw, did and experienced.
Three months spent in hell might as well have been three-hundred in the worst environment on earth. As Leia and likely Alice would attest, the latter would still be preferable. Compounding Leia's suffering are the memories of the precious rekindled bonds between a daughter and her mother. That is, to have experienced those forgotten flavours, only to have them cut short again. Everyone has their demons, Leia's just happen to be both spiritual and literal. Without the latter though she would never have survived: now if she can just work out how to live with both. You can take the girl out of hell but you cannot take the hell out of the girl.
Young Alice, having been born as a human in hell, had apparently undergone restrictions to her development. Presumably to keep her body dormant and perhaps, in this way, less noticeable as an object of desire and molestation. Now on earth, emancipated by Leia, her body's restrictions appear to have been lifted. Awakening after two solid days of sleep and rest, dreams surprisingly silent, Alice now finds a stranger staring back at her in the mirror; dazzling Frank, Eva and Leia as much as herself.
Now taller with lustrous silky hair, bewildering eyes, and curves in all the right places, Alice is at first put off at having the same 'lumps' on her chest that Eva and Leia have too. Only that is, until Alice finds the peace, time and acceptance to better explore her new body. Finding places hitherto ignored, exploration by her fingers cause a warm, wet and moist buzz to spread from her lower stomach, after several hours of attention. Becoming yet another experience in a line of many, she comes to know as 'heaven' (pun intended).
Eva, in a motherly gesture of kindness, shocks Alice by reaching out to take her hand in support, and in so doing is drawn into an unknown power. Alice transports Eva's psyche into visions and experiences of the tortures of hell by nothing more than her gaze. Having experienced this miniscule moment of Alice's life, and Leia's past few months, Eva starts to truly understand the horrors of what the young women went through. But this occurrence, happening outside of Alice's conscious control, first creates fear and anxiety over what else Alice might be able to do.
After much consideration Eva choses to break the ice and takes Alice for a stroll, and in so doing, finds perhaps what Alice's emancipation was destined to do. Alice's honed instincts and senses lead them to the den of a monster's kills. Here, after explanation from Eva about the hunting that Watchers do to prevent these innocent's deaths, the six young female souls they stumble upon in the cave, Alice admits its also what she wants to do. Having escaped hell and its monsters her fortitude and commitment that hell should not be in this 'heaven' are secondary to none, shaping Alice's destiny as Eva believes was meant to be. This time there's no shock as instead Alice takes Eva's hand, declaring "we hunt".
Seeking a short break from all the ongoing and new worries, Leia escapes to the woods for a peaceful stroll, renewing her bond with Fang; now a fully grown pup. And perhaps rekindling another lost bond, when she stumbles upon Lucas. Fearful as it sounds to her own ears, it is perhaps love. If nothing else, repeated coital bliss she and her demon experience is sufficient enough for now. Amidst the famous views of gondalo clad canals in Venice, demon Leia experiences her first of many orgasms; as Lucas' intended first date turns to an afternoon of want.
Between nightmares and memories of things past and present, between the responsibility of bringing Alice to earth with her and her as yet unknown extent of power, between a twin brother and his apparent need to destroy everything, and between the nefarious machinations of a demonic lieutenant from the place she just escaped, Leia has more worries than she knows what to do with. But one things for sure, her life as she had once known it is irrevocably gone, changed for the worst; and if she catches those responsible there'll be hell to pay.
Trademarked no-holds-barred language and dictation, combined with the gritty experiences and a captivating storyline, made The Watchers series one of my favourites. These previous trends have continued in Hell to Pay, with some of the next logical steps now taken, entertainment continues in spades. With separate points of view from all the main characters, readers are endulged with a panoramic view of destruction, and in so doing, covering every shade of the plot. Despite the gap between books the saga continues seemlessly and highlights that Neal is much suited to writing fantasy. His aggressive plots never fail to cover the full dynamics of his wide range of character' emotions, endearing them all regardless of which side of the fence their on. Loved this like I loved the rest; do yourselves a favour and grab the series today.
November 22, 2016
Hello of a good time
Where to start? I recommend you pick up book 1 and enjoy the ride. As this series has progressed the cha r caters have grown with it. N.P. has done a shell of a job. I don't usually get emotional, but the end of this one tore me up, can't wait for what comes next! Heartily recommend you read these.
Where to start? I recommend you pick up book 1 and enjoy the ride. As this series has progressed the cha r caters have grown with it. N.P. has done a shell of a job. I don't usually get emotional, but the end of this one tore me up, can't wait for what comes next! Heartily recommend you read these.
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