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A Promise Between a Man and a Warehouse
by Wesley Doyle
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy » Satire
Content Rating: Older than 17
Thirteen linked stories about a nine-hundred-year-old incubus, the woman who summoned him by accident, and the family that adopts him.
Cora Delaney does not believe in candles. She believes in load-bearing walls, the Oxford comma, and a well-negotiated lease. So when she lights the one her sister mailed her — two glasses of wine into a bad Tuesday, purely to spite it — she assumes the man who walks out of the corner of her living room is the wine's fault.
He isn't. His name is unpronounceable, he's older than most of Europe, and he feeds on wanting. There's exactly one problem with him as a houseguest: every human who ever summoned him wanted something. Cora wanted nothing. Which makes her the only person in nine hundred years who ever called him by accident — and the only one he can't quite bring himself to leave.
What follows is an engagement party that gets dangerously out of hand, a warehouse-club membership that means more to him than it has any right to, a sister with a laminated binder and two hundred and forty candles unaccounted for, a mother who is entirely too calm about all of this, and a widower across the river who needs the one thing no demon can provide.
Underneath the comedy is a genuinely tender question: what do you do with a creature who can arrive anywhere he's wanted — but has never once, in nine hundred years, been wanted back?
For readers of paranormal rom-com who like their demons devoted, their banter sharp, and their heat earned. Contains explicit content. Thirteen linked stories, best read in order.