Eight Hours in Hell
Alina Cross has never been afraid of the dark.
She’s afraid of what waits for her when she sleeps.
For years, her dreams have left her exhausted, aching, and questioning her own sanity. Some mornings, she wakes with bruises she can’t explain. Other mornings, she wakes with her body still trembling from pleasures no dream should be able to give. She tells herself it’s stress. Sleep paralysis. A side effect of being a tired college girl barely holding herself together.
Then she meets Rowan Hale.
He is beautiful in a way that feels dangerous. Cocky. Intense. The kind of man Alina knows she should stay away from — and the exact kind she can’t stop wanting. He appears in her life like a bad decision dressed in black, always knowing too much, always leaving too suddenly, and always looking at her like he already owns a piece of her.
But Rowan is not the only man haunting her.
There is another.
A demon in her dreams.
Vael.
He touches her in the dark. Protects her from things she can’t see. Whispers warnings against her skin. Every night, he becomes harder to fear and impossible to resist.
Alina thinks she is losing her mind when she starts wanting them both.
The man who finds her in the waking world.
And the monster who waits for her in sleep.
Until one night, one wrong name slips from her lips — and Rowan answers to it.
Because Rowan Hale is a lie.
Vael is an incubus, a rare tracker demon with the power to find supernatural blood no one else can sense. He can walk the human realm for only eight hours at a time before hell drags him back. And Alina was never supposed to be his to keep.
She was his assignment.
Sent by his cruel Consort Bond, Veyra, Vael was meant to find the hidden half-human, half-demon girl whose body could give Veyra what she craves permanent access to the human world.
Alina was supposed to be delivered.
Used.
Possessed.
Instead, Vael chose her.
Now the demon who was sent to betray her is the only thing standing between Alina and the underworld hunting her. But trust is a dangerous thing to give a monster, especially one who lied from the beginning.
As Veyra closes in and Alina’s dreams begin bleeding into reality, the truth about her bloodline finally awakens. She is not simply a girl demons want.
She is the daughter of something ancient.
Something royal.
Something hell itself was ordered to forget.
And if Alina wants to survive, she’ll have to stop running from the darkness inside her — and decide whether the incubus who ruined her life is also the only one willing to burn hell down to save it.
He was sent to hand her over.
He was never meant to love her.
And he only has eight hours before hell calls him home.
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Eight Hours in Hell
Alina Cross has never been afraid of the dark.
She’s afraid of what waits for her when she sleeps.
For years, her dreams have left her exhausted, aching, and questioning her own sanity. Some mornings, she wakes with bruises she can’t explain. Other mornings, she wakes with her body still trembling from pleasures no dream should be able to give. She tells herself it’s stress. Sleep paralysis. A side effect of being a tired college girl barely holding herself together.
Then she meets Rowan Hale.
He is beautiful in a way that feels dangerous. Cocky. Intense. The kind of man Alina knows she should stay away from — and the exact kind she can’t stop wanting. He appears in her life like a bad decision dressed in black, always knowing too much, always leaving too suddenly, and always looking at her like he already owns a piece of her.
But Rowan is not the only man haunting her.
There is another.
A demon in her dreams.
Vael.
He touches her in the dark. Protects her from things she can’t see. Whispers warnings against her skin. Every night, he becomes harder to fear and impossible to resist.
Alina thinks she is losing her mind when she starts wanting them both.
The man who finds her in the waking world.
And the monster who waits for her in sleep.
Until one night, one wrong name slips from her lips — and Rowan answers to it.
Because Rowan Hale is a lie.
Vael is an incubus, a rare tracker demon with the power to find supernatural blood no one else can sense. He can walk the human realm for only eight hours at a time before hell drags him back. And Alina was never supposed to be his to keep.
She was his assignment.
Sent by his cruel Consort Bond, Veyra, Vael was meant to find the hidden half-human, half-demon girl whose body could give Veyra what she craves permanent access to the human world.
Alina was supposed to be delivered.
Used.
Possessed.
Instead, Vael chose her.
Now the demon who was sent to betray her is the only thing standing between Alina and the underworld hunting her. But trust is a dangerous thing to give a monster, especially one who lied from the beginning.
As Veyra closes in and Alina’s dreams begin bleeding into reality, the truth about her bloodline finally awakens. She is not simply a girl demons want.
She is the daughter of something ancient.
Something royal.
Something hell itself was ordered to forget.
And if Alina wants to survive, she’ll have to stop running from the darkness inside her — and decide whether the incubus who ruined her life is also the only one willing to burn hell down to save it.
He was sent to hand her over.
He was never meant to love her.
And he only has eight hours before hell calls him home.