DEVIL’S TOLL asks: what happens to our consciousness when we die? Despite the current appetite for supernatural suspense fiction, to my knowledge no novel to date has dared explore the Aerial Toll Houses, a time-honored religious belief that at the moment of death, our souls encounter supernatural toll houses guarded by demons seeking their last chance to snatch us away to eternal damnation. The existence of the Aerial Toll Houses is an ancient doctrine in the Eastern Orthodox Church—a doctrine that persists to this day.
DEVIL’S TOLL, written in a deceptively light-hearted tone, leads the reader on a death walk with a modern woman through her mysterious premature demise and the harrowing of her soul by malevolent unearthly beings masquerading as humans.
