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Evelyn has nothing left to lose. Two weeks ago, she walked away from her own life and into a Detroit drug house. She doesn't remember anything before that — not the grief that drove her here, not the people she loved, not the woman she used to be. Then she wakes up next to Laney.

Laney is older than Babylon. She made a forbidden bargain to save Evelyn from death — and now she has just weeks to teach Evelyn how to inherit her legacy, or watch it kill them both. A demon of debauchery is closing in. The gods are listening. And the foremothers are restless.

The bargain saved Evelyn’s life. Now it wants the rest of her.

The Joining Trial is the gritty, profane first book in the Blood Rite series — a dark urban fantasy of forgotten Mesopotamian gods and the women who would burn the world to keep each other alive.

Immortality isn’t a gift. It’s an appetite.

Adult content. Reader discretion advised.