"Your voice is not noise… be so loud they cower beneath your roar."
Lena never learned to advocate for herself—and she dies without hearing the gunshot that kills her.
In a patriarchal Heaven, souls are auctioned at a claiming ceremony. Lena is bought for a small fortune by the highest figure in Heaven's political hierarchy, Vincent. While searching for the mother she lost, Lena connects with another angel—her future betrothed, Haris—too well. Their romance blooms, and Vincent's jealousy sends Lena straight to Hell.
Hell's queen, Lily—who goes by Lily, Lilith, Lucy, and Lucifer—offers Lena a bargain: if she survives a brutal trial system, she will gain access to the living world in exchange for helping to dismantle Heaven's repression.
Now, the girl who died without a voice must use it to ask for the person she loves to follow her.
The Handmaid's Tale meets Alchemised meets Katabasis—with Lucifer as a found-family matriarch and a slow burn that takes the whole book to earn.
For readers of The Handmaid's Tale, Katabasis, and Alchemised.
