“DESCENT is an intelligent, wonderfully written, highly original tale that lures the reader deep into a labyrinth of nightmare landscapes and horrors that haunt the body, mind, and ultimately the soul.”
Greg F. Gifune
author of GARDENS OF NIGHT and DREAMS THE RAGMAN
Sandy DeLuca's sensational novel – the story of one woman's plunge into an inferno of sexual violence and lurid evil – DESCENT – is now available for the first time in paperback.
SLEEPING IN THE DEVIL’S BED
A young painter falls in love with a dangerously seductive man who may be in league with the Devil … who may even be a devil. So begins her DESCENT into a world of violence and horror, a world of rituals and madness and unspeakable cruelty. Can she retain her soul despite the things he does to her, the things he forces her to witness . . . the things he forces her to do? When you dance with the Devil, can you ever make it stop?
Poet and artist Sandy DeLuca is the author of several well-received novels, including MANHATTAN GRIMOIRE and FROM ASHES.
"Who in the genre still writes for adults? The answer is Sandy DeLuca. The worlds she creates are steeped in darkness, but poetry echoes there (along with screams). Her work offers chills and pleasures that are no mere matter of gore but that satisfy in the way all real literature satisfies – in the way all true art satisfies – by challenging and touching us ... and ultimately by changing us."
Robert Dunbar
author of WILLY and MARTYRS & MONSTERS