When CJ Ryan's girlfriend decides life is less complicated without him, CJ travels a destructive path into despair, walking the line between what's right and what feels good. But what feels good is a dangerous slope to travel, especially when Lucifer wages war for his soul. One wrong step and CJ could fall into the devil's trap, becoming no better than the demons he battles.

I have no memory of my life beyond waking in a hospital room. They tell me my name is CJ Ryan, and I have been in a coma for a little over two years. Apparently, it’s a medical miracle that I am even alive, much less awake and coherent. I have no idea what they are running on about. My stutter is hardly articulate, and it makes communicating a real bitch. But the media loves it, the story of the ‘coma boy wakes!’ I’m thrust into the forefront of the headlines. The push into the spotlight shines a harsh glare on my family and brings with it a plague of horrors that drag me to the edge. With each supernatural encounter, another power is revealed, and I have no idea what the hell I am, or how to control this raging magic inside me. I need answers and I turn to my brother, but he isn’t talking. No one is. Because every time I get close to glimpsing my past, my brain shuts down violently, causing me seizures. Seizures that could kill me. When an enemy with a psychotic history reenters our lives, it will take more than just my memory to save us. I must harness my memories along with all the powers inside me to survive the upcoming onslaught.

CJ Ryan's life seems to have fallen into place, and while the backdrop of his Hawaiian honeymoon provides the perfect healing elixir, the guilt of sentencing his father to an eternity of torture at Lucifer's hands starts to intrude on his happily-ever-after. When he and Valerie return from Hawaii, a note from the king of hell greets him, outlining in sickening detail his plans for CJ and those he holds dearest. With everyone he loves on Lucifer's hit list, CJ must start living up to the bargain he made in Heaven, but every one of Hell's gates he closes is one less portal available for his father's escape.