Lilah's Guide to Hoyle: A Tragedy in Four Acts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998393018)

When the stakes are your soul, every hand is a gamble.

Lilah thought poker was her way through college-until one game destroyed everything. Desperate, she struck a bargain with a demon. Now her grandfather's birthday gift, a deck of cards, is bound to her blood. Every hand she plays carries power she can barely control.

Her only guide is Hoyle's Guide to Poker and Parlor Tricks, a battered rulebook she's twisted into a personal grimoire. With every shuffle, she taps deeper into the deck's secrets-but the more she plays, the closer she draws to the voice in the dark that owns her debt.

Across the city, two detectives are tracking a string of bizarre crimes that keep escalating-clues pointing to a single suspect, though none of it seems like coincidence.

Caught between the demon's whispers and the law closing in, Lilah faces the ultimate gamble: walk away before she loses her humanity, or keep playing a game where every card could be her undoing.