Sapienthropy
Accused of committing the only crime in hell, a wolf demon is banished to live for centuries on Earth as a human except during the full moon…and each life he takes will add over a half-century to his exile..
In the high court of the Magistrate, the accused wolf demon, Omen-Ab'Stothe, faces charges that he has committed the only crime in hell—which he has no memory of committing—and is banished for six hundred sixteen years to the worst prison imaginable: Earth. To help him acclimate to his new surroundings, he is accompanied by his court-appointed guide, Seth LaCharus, another type of demon who assumes human form and has a long history of wreaking deadly chaos in the Earthly realm. Seth’s first act is to give his companion a human name, Stephan Piroy, and he explains to Stephan that each life he takes during a full moon will add sixty-six years to his original sentence.
At first repulsed by humans and their revolting customs, Stephan longs to return home to clear his name, as he is adamant of his innocence, but soon he finds himself inexplicably drawn to a young, independent woman, Val Rousse, who owns and runs a local curio shop and moves among her fellow humans effortlessly, despite the fact that she was born blind.
At the same time, half-way across the globe, a man with a long and mysterious past and known only by the name Walker, senses the presence of the two exiles from hell and makes his way to their New England location with the mission of sending the pair back to where they belong. As a series of gruesome and horrifying murders come to plague a small Massachusetts city, Walker must race against the cycle of the moon to thwart the evil unleashed by hell itself.
