Demon — Leslie Claire Walker

-- Determined to be a hero. Terrified by the darkness growing inside him. -- Rudolph Diamond Davies III: Senior class clown. Hawaiian-shirt-wearing party dude. Apprentice Faery Seer trained to enforce the peace among humans, faeries, angels, and demons. No problem. Until a friend's spell to summon a capital D Demon devastates Rude's city in the blink of an eye. Even more disturbing, the spell transforms his memories of the terrible things he's faced into living, breathing evil inside of him. It transforms him into a monster he fears he can't control. Can he hold the monster at bay long enough to save his friends and his city? Or will he fail and join the Demon to destroy the world? "For more than a decade now, I've adored the work of Leslie Claire Walker." - Kristine Kathryn Rusch