A great spinoff of the Demonica/Lords of the underworld series is the "Demonica Underworld".
THEY ARE PART OF 1001 DARK NIGHTS NOVELLAS.
So far, 5 books have been published. One of them was published yesterday.
And there is another book coming on April 10th 2018, when Larissa Ione joins forces with Lexi Blake.
Even in the fathomless depths of the underworld and the bleak chambers of a damaged heart, the bonds of love can heal…or destroy.
He holds the ability to annihilate souls in the palm of his hand. He commands the respect of the most dangerous of demons and the most powerful of angels. He can seduce and dominate any female he wants with a mere look. But for all Azagoth’s power, he’s bound by shackles of his own making, and only an angel with a secret holds the key to his release.
She’s an angel with the extraordinary ability to travel through time and space. An angel with a tormented past she can’t escape. And when Lilliana is sent to Azagoth’s underworld realm, she finds that her past isn’t all she can’t escape. For the irresistibly sexy fallen angel known as Azagoth is also known as the Grim Reaper, and when he claims a soul, it’s forever…
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
Azagoth is the Demonica version of Grim Reaper. He is
• between Heaven and Hell
• between demons and angels
• between time and space
He is the judge of everyone’s final punishment. So everyone is afraid of him.
You may think he has problems finding female company, but this is not the case.
Besides being really good-looking, Azagoth has a constant supply of angels that are sent by the Heaven.
You see, Azagoth is the official Sperm donor for the Memitim, the earthbound, hybrid angels.
He never made complains before, but now he has had enough. For thousands of years, inside his Greek design massive palace, he was sleeping with unwilling females, producing children that they were taken away from him and he had to look after the Sheoul-gra (the holding tank for demon souls) at the same time. He is lonely, tired and he wants a mate.
When Heaven sends the next female, he is keeping her forever.
Lilliana is a warrior angel who can travel in time. She ends up in Azagoth’s hands as a punishment after striking a deal with evil archangel Raphael.
Lilliana likes the physical appearance of Azagoth straight away:
“…an impossibly beautiful dark-haired male with eyes the color of vibrant emeralds.”
“His deep voice turned her marrow to pudding even as a wave of heat licked her skin.”
“Dear...God. He was both magnificent and frightening.”
“Lilliana resided in Heaven, where all male angels were perfect specimens of masculinity, but something about Azagoth made every last one of them seem average.”
“Azagoth’s simple elegance and raw sexuality.”
But Lilliana also starts liking Azagoth as a person. He is fair, he looks after his employees and he loves his sons or daughters very much – even if some of his children hate him.
And he thinks that he is not good enough for her. How can she be happy and content in Hell?
The story of Azagoth and Lilliana is full of passion, betrayal and acceptance. Besides the dark settings, their story is incredibly romantic and sweet. Only Larissa Ione can make a dark soul, likeable.
A fallen angel with a mean streak and a mohawk, Hades has spent thousands of years serving as Jailor of the Underworld. The souls he guards are as evil as they come, but few dare to cross him. All of that changes when a sexy fallen angel infiltrates his prison and unintentionally starts a riot. It’s easy enough to quell an uprising, but for the first time, Hades is torn between delivering justice — bestowing or mercy — on the beautiful female who could be his salvation…or his undoing.
Thanks to her unwitting participation in another angel’s plot to start Armageddon, Cataclysm was kicked out of Heaven and is now a fallen angel in service of Hades’s boss, Azagoth. All she wants is to redeem herself and get back where she belongs. But when she gets trapped in Hades’s prison domain with only the cocky but irresistible Hades to help her, Cat finds that where she belongs might be in the place she least expected…
Hades is the Jailor of Hell. Being the original bad boy and a fallen angel, he likes to be shirtless all the time and he has a blue mohawk and a bad attitude. His boss is Azagoth.
Azagoth, for his personal reasons, is making Hades’ life a torment every day. You see Hades made a huge mistake when he was younger and Azagoth has not forgiven him ever since.
Cataclysm (Cat for friends) is another fallen agent that has joint Hell’s personnel. She really likes Hades but he does not give her a chance to come close to him.
Cataclysm lives up to her name. She is a true disaster. After she got kicked out of heaven, she is now the worse housekeeper for Azagoth’s house.
Very soon, she will make the tragic mistake of letting a good soul entering Hell.
While she tries to correct her mistake, she enters hell as well to find and save the lost good soul. As a result she will be an easy prey for the demon souls there.
Hades will try to do his best to save her, before Azagoth realizes that there is something wrong in his otherwise flawless business.
Very soon, they will be both in trouble and Azagoth will need to interfere and to show his real cruel face.
This is a really funny (in a weird short of way) short novel.
Rough (but lonely) Hades and clumsy (but nurturer) Cat are perfect for each other.
“Shit,” he rasped. “Too much. This is too much.”
Too much what? It wasn’t enough, as far as she was concerned. “I like touching you.”
“No one ever touches me.” He took a deep, shuddering breath that somehow sounded...pained, and not in a good way. “Nothing but the wind and rain ever does.”
Wind and rain? Was that why he often went bare-chested? He liked the feel of something caressing his skin because people wouldn’t? Or maybe he wouldn’t let them?
When the time comes, Hades will be ready to make amends to Azagoth and Cat will be ready to change her life without regrets.
Zhubaal, fallen angel assistant to the Grim Reaper, has spent decades searching for the angel he loved and lost nearly a century ago. Not even her death can keep him from trying to find her, not when he knows she’s been given a second chance at life in a new body. But as time passes, he’s losing hope, and he wonders how much longer he can hold to the oath he swore to her so long ago…
As an emim, the wingless offspring of two fallen angels, Vex has always felt like a second-class citizen. But if she manages to secure a deal with the Grim Reaper — by any means necessary — she will have earned her place in the world. The only obstacle in the way of her plan is a sexy hardass called Z, who seems determined to thwart her at every turn. Soon it becomes clear that they have a powerful connection rooted in the past…but can any vow stand the test of time?
This is the story of Zhubaal or Z, the angel who fall just to be able to find his lost love Laura. Z is the right hand of Azagoth who always looks after his employees - although he is the grim reaper and a really badass.
Vex is the daughter of two fallen angels. The girl has a tiny problem in the book. She can attract and absorb lost demon souls. This time she has 5 souls inside her and Z suspects that one of those belong to Laura.
So Azagoth will try to help Z. He will try to extract the 5 souls, find Laura’s soul and get the rest of the doomed souls. And make his trusty employee happy. And maybe be able to hire another trusty employee in the process. Win-win situation.
Unfortunately Z will have a possibly nasty surprise. Can he accept the new Laura?
“So that’s who you want me to be? The innocent, sweet, shy girl you say I was?” She stormed over to the bed and snatched up the robe again. “Because I can’t be her. I can’t be anything but me. I love you, but I won’t change who I am for anyone.” She tied the robe around her waist and spread her arms wide. “This is me. You either love me for who I am, or you find someone else to love.”
Great story. I smiled and laughed a lot, even in scenes normal people are not supposed to smile and laugh. But this happens to me a lot when I am reading Ione's books.
A fallen angel with a secret.
An otherworldly elf with an insatiable hunger she doesn't understand.
A cursed gem.
Meet mortal enemies Razr and Jedda...and the priceless diamond that threatens to destroy them both even as it bonds them together with sizzling passion.
Welcome back to the Demonica Underworld, where enemies find love...if they're strong enough to survive.
Once upon a time, in the future…
Rarz or Razriel: An angel who is not exactly fallen or unfallen BUT he is still outside heaven and he is not allowed to return and he is still brutally punished with whipping even in times he least expects it.
Jedda: A gem elf who creates gems from her blood every time she bleeds and may be the reason for Rarz’s punishment, although truly she is a good girl with the best intentions. And Rarz does not believe that she is not a demon. Because angels know everything and he knows that elves definitely do not exist.
Rarz and Jedda will be crazy in lust with each other from the second they meet. Jedda will feel compassion for him and he will want to look after her. Rarz will think that there is no way Jedda is a ruthless thief. Could their feelings develop and these two lovely lonely beings fall in love?
It is amazing how greatly and brilliantly after so many years and so many books, the world building is still ongoing and the Demonica World is still expanding.
A new realm in this book (the elves realm), new interesting characters:
-A fallen angel, Shrike
-A few Memitim, Suzanne and Hawkyn
-An unfallen angel, Cipher (The Fabio wannabe)
-A few important dhampires, Galen, Rhona and Isla (the Wardens, the Triad)
-A lion shapeshifter who always comes back no matter how many times she dies, Lexi
-And Jim Bob of course, who is this guy?
And we visit both the Sheoul Gra, where Azagoth is still the badass boss (I absolutely love Azagoth!) and Scotland where the dhampires live. Dhampires are both vampires and werewolves –in case you don’t remember. In Sin Undone, Conall Dearghul was a dhampire.
Most of the times, I am speechless when I read about all these magnificent creatures/monsters that the imagination of Larissa Ione’s creates.
I just wish that we have again some full length novels. I always feel hungrier and unsatisfied when I finish her books lately. Not enough pages.
Favorite quote, which shows the sublime humor of the Demonica world:
“There’s a saying in Heaven,” he said lightly. “Angels keep their humor in their wings.”
“So when they get cut off...”
“So does their humor.” He shrugged. “Of course, fallen angels do grow wings eventually.”
“But their sense of humor doesn’t grow back?”
“Oh, it does. You just don’t want to be on the funny side of it.”
AND THE NEW BOOKS
As a special class of earthbound guardian angel called Memitim, Hawkyn is charged with protecting those whose lives are woven into the fabric of the future. His success is legendary, so when he’s given a serial killer to watch over, he sees no reason for that to change. But Hawkyn’s own future is jeopardized after he breaks the rules and rescues a beautiful woman from the killer’s clutches, setting off an explosive, demonic game of cat and mouse that pits brother against brother and that won’t end until someone dies.
Aurora Mercer is the half-wytch lone survivor of a psychopath who gets off on the sadistic torture of his victims. A psychopath whose obsessive psyche won’t let him move on until he kills her. Now she’s marked for death, her fate tied to that of a murderer…and to a sexy angel who makes her blood burn with desire…
After a difficult childhood and a turbulent stint in the military, Declan Burke finally got his act together. Now he’s a battle-hardened professional bodyguard who takes his job at McKay-Taggart seriously and his playtime – and his playmates – just as seriously. One thing he never does, however, is mix business with pleasure. But when the mysterious, gorgeous Suzanne D’Angelo needs his protection from a stalker, his desire for her burns out of control, tempting him to break all the rules…even as he’s drawn into a dark, dangerous world he didn’t know existed.
Suzanne is an earthbound angel on her critical first mission: protecting Declan from an emerging supernatural threat at all costs. To keep him close, she hires him as her bodyguard. It doesn’t take long for her to realize that she’s in over her head, defenseless against this devastatingly sexy human who makes her crave his forbidden touch.
Together they’ll have to draw on every ounce of their collective training to resist each other as the enemy closes in, but soon it becomes apparent that nothing could have prepared them for the menace to their lives…or their hearts.
Expected publication: April 10th 2018
THEY ARE PART OF 1001 DARK NIGHTS NOVELLAS.
So far, 5 books have been published. One of them was published yesterday.
And there is another book coming on April 10th 2018, when Larissa Ione joins forces with Lexi Blake.
Azagoth (Demonica Underworld #1) by Larissa Ione
SUMMARY
Even in the fathomless depths of the underworld and the bleak chambers of a damaged heart, the bonds of love can heal…or destroy.
He holds the ability to annihilate souls in the palm of his hand. He commands the respect of the most dangerous of demons and the most powerful of angels. He can seduce and dominate any female he wants with a mere look. But for all Azagoth’s power, he’s bound by shackles of his own making, and only an angel with a secret holds the key to his release.
She’s an angel with the extraordinary ability to travel through time and space. An angel with a tormented past she can’t escape. And when Lilliana is sent to Azagoth’s underworld realm, she finds that her past isn’t all she can’t escape. For the irresistibly sexy fallen angel known as Azagoth is also known as the Grim Reaper, and when he claims a soul, it’s forever…
MY REVIEW
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
Azagoth is the Demonica version of Grim Reaper. He is
• between Heaven and Hell
• between demons and angels
• between time and space
He is the judge of everyone’s final punishment. So everyone is afraid of him.
You may think he has problems finding female company, but this is not the case.
Besides being really good-looking, Azagoth has a constant supply of angels that are sent by the Heaven.
You see, Azagoth is the official Sperm donor for the Memitim, the earthbound, hybrid angels.
He never made complains before, but now he has had enough. For thousands of years, inside his Greek design massive palace, he was sleeping with unwilling females, producing children that they were taken away from him and he had to look after the Sheoul-gra (the holding tank for demon souls) at the same time. He is lonely, tired and he wants a mate.
When Heaven sends the next female, he is keeping her forever.
Lilliana is a warrior angel who can travel in time. She ends up in Azagoth’s hands as a punishment after striking a deal with evil archangel Raphael.
Lilliana likes the physical appearance of Azagoth straight away:
“…an impossibly beautiful dark-haired male with eyes the color of vibrant emeralds.”
“His deep voice turned her marrow to pudding even as a wave of heat licked her skin.”
“Dear...God. He was both magnificent and frightening.”
“Lilliana resided in Heaven, where all male angels were perfect specimens of masculinity, but something about Azagoth made every last one of them seem average.”
“Azagoth’s simple elegance and raw sexuality.”
But Lilliana also starts liking Azagoth as a person. He is fair, he looks after his employees and he loves his sons or daughters very much – even if some of his children hate him.
And he thinks that he is not good enough for her. How can she be happy and content in Hell?
The story of Azagoth and Lilliana is full of passion, betrayal and acceptance. Besides the dark settings, their story is incredibly romantic and sweet. Only Larissa Ione can make a dark soul, likeable.
Hades (Demonica Underworld #2) by Larissa Ione
SUMMARY
A fallen angel with a mean streak and a mohawk, Hades has spent thousands of years serving as Jailor of the Underworld. The souls he guards are as evil as they come, but few dare to cross him. All of that changes when a sexy fallen angel infiltrates his prison and unintentionally starts a riot. It’s easy enough to quell an uprising, but for the first time, Hades is torn between delivering justice — bestowing or mercy — on the beautiful female who could be his salvation…or his undoing.
Thanks to her unwitting participation in another angel’s plot to start Armageddon, Cataclysm was kicked out of Heaven and is now a fallen angel in service of Hades’s boss, Azagoth. All she wants is to redeem herself and get back where she belongs. But when she gets trapped in Hades’s prison domain with only the cocky but irresistible Hades to help her, Cat finds that where she belongs might be in the place she least expected…
MY REVIEW
Hades is the Jailor of Hell. Being the original bad boy and a fallen angel, he likes to be shirtless all the time and he has a blue mohawk and a bad attitude. His boss is Azagoth.
Azagoth, for his personal reasons, is making Hades’ life a torment every day. You see Hades made a huge mistake when he was younger and Azagoth has not forgiven him ever since.
Cataclysm (Cat for friends) is another fallen agent that has joint Hell’s personnel. She really likes Hades but he does not give her a chance to come close to him.
Cataclysm lives up to her name. She is a true disaster. After she got kicked out of heaven, she is now the worse housekeeper for Azagoth’s house.
Very soon, she will make the tragic mistake of letting a good soul entering Hell.
While she tries to correct her mistake, she enters hell as well to find and save the lost good soul. As a result she will be an easy prey for the demon souls there.
Hades will try to do his best to save her, before Azagoth realizes that there is something wrong in his otherwise flawless business.
Very soon, they will be both in trouble and Azagoth will need to interfere and to show his real cruel face.
This is a really funny (in a weird short of way) short novel.
Rough (but lonely) Hades and clumsy (but nurturer) Cat are perfect for each other.
“Shit,” he rasped. “Too much. This is too much.”
Too much what? It wasn’t enough, as far as she was concerned. “I like touching you.”
“No one ever touches me.” He took a deep, shuddering breath that somehow sounded...pained, and not in a good way. “Nothing but the wind and rain ever does.”
Wind and rain? Was that why he often went bare-chested? He liked the feel of something caressing his skin because people wouldn’t? Or maybe he wouldn’t let them?
When the time comes, Hades will be ready to make amends to Azagoth and Cat will be ready to change her life without regrets.
Z (Demonica Underworld #3) by Larissa Ione
SUMMARY
Zhubaal, fallen angel assistant to the Grim Reaper, has spent decades searching for the angel he loved and lost nearly a century ago. Not even her death can keep him from trying to find her, not when he knows she’s been given a second chance at life in a new body. But as time passes, he’s losing hope, and he wonders how much longer he can hold to the oath he swore to her so long ago…
As an emim, the wingless offspring of two fallen angels, Vex has always felt like a second-class citizen. But if she manages to secure a deal with the Grim Reaper — by any means necessary — she will have earned her place in the world. The only obstacle in the way of her plan is a sexy hardass called Z, who seems determined to thwart her at every turn. Soon it becomes clear that they have a powerful connection rooted in the past…but can any vow stand the test of time?
MY REVIEW
This is the story of Zhubaal or Z, the angel who fall just to be able to find his lost love Laura. Z is the right hand of Azagoth who always looks after his employees - although he is the grim reaper and a really badass.
Vex is the daughter of two fallen angels. The girl has a tiny problem in the book. She can attract and absorb lost demon souls. This time she has 5 souls inside her and Z suspects that one of those belong to Laura.
So Azagoth will try to help Z. He will try to extract the 5 souls, find Laura’s soul and get the rest of the doomed souls. And make his trusty employee happy. And maybe be able to hire another trusty employee in the process. Win-win situation.
Unfortunately Z will have a possibly nasty surprise. Can he accept the new Laura?
“So that’s who you want me to be? The innocent, sweet, shy girl you say I was?” She stormed over to the bed and snatched up the robe again. “Because I can’t be her. I can’t be anything but me. I love you, but I won’t change who I am for anyone.” She tied the robe around her waist and spread her arms wide. “This is me. You either love me for who I am, or you find someone else to love.”
Great story. I smiled and laughed a lot, even in scenes normal people are not supposed to smile and laugh. But this happens to me a lot when I am reading Ione's books.
Razr (Demonica Underworld #4) by Larissa Ione
SUMMARY
A fallen angel with a secret.
An otherworldly elf with an insatiable hunger she doesn't understand.
A cursed gem.
Meet mortal enemies Razr and Jedda...and the priceless diamond that threatens to destroy them both even as it bonds them together with sizzling passion.
Welcome back to the Demonica Underworld, where enemies find love...if they're strong enough to survive.
MY REVIEW
Once upon a time, in the future…
Rarz or Razriel: An angel who is not exactly fallen or unfallen BUT he is still outside heaven and he is not allowed to return and he is still brutally punished with whipping even in times he least expects it.
Jedda: A gem elf who creates gems from her blood every time she bleeds and may be the reason for Rarz’s punishment, although truly she is a good girl with the best intentions. And Rarz does not believe that she is not a demon. Because angels know everything and he knows that elves definitely do not exist.
Rarz and Jedda will be crazy in lust with each other from the second they meet. Jedda will feel compassion for him and he will want to look after her. Rarz will think that there is no way Jedda is a ruthless thief. Could their feelings develop and these two lovely lonely beings fall in love?
It is amazing how greatly and brilliantly after so many years and so many books, the world building is still ongoing and the Demonica World is still expanding.
A new realm in this book (the elves realm), new interesting characters:
-A fallen angel, Shrike
-A few Memitim, Suzanne and Hawkyn
-An unfallen angel, Cipher (The Fabio wannabe)
-A few important dhampires, Galen, Rhona and Isla (the Wardens, the Triad)
-A lion shapeshifter who always comes back no matter how many times she dies, Lexi
-And Jim Bob of course, who is this guy?
And we visit both the Sheoul Gra, where Azagoth is still the badass boss (I absolutely love Azagoth!) and Scotland where the dhampires live. Dhampires are both vampires and werewolves –in case you don’t remember. In Sin Undone, Conall Dearghul was a dhampire.
Most of the times, I am speechless when I read about all these magnificent creatures/monsters that the imagination of Larissa Ione’s creates.
I just wish that we have again some full length novels. I always feel hungrier and unsatisfied when I finish her books lately. Not enough pages.
Favorite quote, which shows the sublime humor of the Demonica world:
“There’s a saying in Heaven,” he said lightly. “Angels keep their humor in their wings.”
“So when they get cut off...”
“So does their humor.” He shrugged. “Of course, fallen angels do grow wings eventually.”
“But their sense of humor doesn’t grow back?”
“Oh, it does. You just don’t want to be on the funny side of it.”
AND THE NEW BOOKS
Hawkyn (Demonica Underworld #5) by Larissa Ione
SUMMARY
As a special class of earthbound guardian angel called Memitim, Hawkyn is charged with protecting those whose lives are woven into the fabric of the future. His success is legendary, so when he’s given a serial killer to watch over, he sees no reason for that to change. But Hawkyn’s own future is jeopardized after he breaks the rules and rescues a beautiful woman from the killer’s clutches, setting off an explosive, demonic game of cat and mouse that pits brother against brother and that won’t end until someone dies.
Aurora Mercer is the half-wytch lone survivor of a psychopath who gets off on the sadistic torture of his victims. A psychopath whose obsessive psyche won’t let him move on until he kills her. Now she’s marked for death, her fate tied to that of a murderer…and to a sexy angel who makes her blood burn with desire…
Her Guardian Angel (Demonica Underworld #6) by Larissa Ione and Lexi Blake
SUMMARY
After a difficult childhood and a turbulent stint in the military, Declan Burke finally got his act together. Now he’s a battle-hardened professional bodyguard who takes his job at McKay-Taggart seriously and his playtime – and his playmates – just as seriously. One thing he never does, however, is mix business with pleasure. But when the mysterious, gorgeous Suzanne D’Angelo needs his protection from a stalker, his desire for her burns out of control, tempting him to break all the rules…even as he’s drawn into a dark, dangerous world he didn’t know existed.
Suzanne is an earthbound angel on her critical first mission: protecting Declan from an emerging supernatural threat at all costs. To keep him close, she hires him as her bodyguard. It doesn’t take long for her to realize that she’s in over her head, defenseless against this devastatingly sexy human who makes her crave his forbidden touch.
Together they’ll have to draw on every ounce of their collective training to resist each other as the enemy closes in, but soon it becomes apparent that nothing could have prepared them for the menace to their lives…or their hearts.
Expected publication: April 10th 2018
K Webster is the author of dozens romance books in many different genres including contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance, and erotic romance. When not spending time with her husband of twelve years and two adorable children, she's active on social media connecting with her readers.
Her other passions besides writing include reading and graphic design. K can always be found in front of her computer chasing her next idea and taking action. She looks forward to the day when she will see one of her titles on the big screen.
My books all tend to be darker romance, edge of you seat, angst filled reads. My advice to my readers when starting one of my titles…prepare for the unexpected.
I have always had a passion for storytelling, whether it be through lyrics or bed time stories with my sisters growing up.
My mum would always have a book in her hand when I was young and passed on her love for reading, inspiring me to venture into writing my own. I tend to have a darker edge to my writing. Not all love stories are made from light; some are created in darkness but are just as powerful and worth telling.
When I'm not lost in the world of characters I love spending time with my family. I'm a mum and that comes first in my life but when I do get down time I love attending music concerts or reading events with my younger sister.
