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In the city of Seattle, Jael, a teenage sophomore at a Catholic high school, discovers she is the last in a line of demonic blood. As she struggles to master the powers she inherited from her mother, she must also safeguard her classmates and her single‑parent family from the looming threat of Belial, the Duke of Hell. Jael’s dual reality—school, friends, family, and the supernatural—creates a tense, layered coming‑of‑age story set against the backdrop of a modern, urban high school.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Jon Skovron
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