Bestselling author Ed Greenwood kicks off the bold new HELLMAW series with this raw, violent, sexy tale of three humans who discover the hard way that ruthless d?mons live among us on Earth—and regard us as cattle.

FBI profiler Maria Ruiz is done. Over a long career called in to consult on bizarre murders, she has chased the worst of humanity, scoured the depths of evil, and seen the limits of mortal justice. Once she finishes her last cases, she plans to leave the whole mess behind her. When she connects two wide-ranging assignments, however, Ruiz knows that something strange is happening. She becomes convinced that she's following a mysterious assassin who stalks a series of high-profile targets: accused rapists and serial abusers, killers and corrupt politicians, all men who seemingly escaped justice. And as the bodies pile up, Ruiz comes closer and closer to catching the killer: an angel of death not from this world.

Following a slight misfire with a prank (on a cop, involving herself as the dead body), Jaeda finds herself confined to a small room, with only a TV as company. Relaxing will help her regenerate her mostly missing body, but that's entirely too boring for her liking. Besides, she has better things to do with her time, like becoming a model. But when her guardian and keeper vanishes, Jaeda has to move quickly to avoid capture and save herself, her guardian, and her new human pets. Regenerating will simply have to wait.

What's worse than being an Incubus second class and never getting promoted? How about accidentally sleeping with your boss' sister and getting exiled to Earth as punishment? Azazael finds himself banished from the homeworld of the Araurra to Burlington, Wisconsin, on a January morning at -11 degrees. He's a naked, 6'4" red demon with black ram's horns, black wings, and goat haunches. How does he fit in? Find out in tweets, texts, Facebook posts, and emails sent from his smart phone to his master.

When a powerful daemon warlord is murdered in modern-day England, all signs point in the same direction: to Tehru, his nemesis throughout the dynastic war on Araunt. But Tehru knows that someone else has access to her power: Quills, a back-alley magic dealer and tattooist who once received a sample of Tehru's essence as payment for her services. Now the murdered daemon's followers are coming after Tehru for retribution, and Quills has to track down the real killer and clear her client's name. If Quills doesn't solve the murder in time, she'll be the one to take the fall.Contains mature themes.