TheHordeWorks
Aurora Payne sold her soul to buy her more time against her cancer diagnosis. Now, the Devil has collected his due. But Aurora soon finds out that Hell isn't anything like she had once conceived it to be.
Hell is not just a jail for those who have sold their souls, it's a prison for the most destructive entity in the universe: the Horde.
An ancient deity akin to a black hole, the Horde is the mother of all demons and nightmares. The Celestials constructed Hell over 8,000 years ago to be its prison, and the humans sent there to be its food.
Yet, something is stirring beneath Hell's foundations. The chains around the Horde are fraying, a plot is gathering among the demon courts, and Aurora doesn't yet grasp how tightly those chains have wound around her.
Annunciation, book one of the HORDE series, follows Aurora's descent into a hierarchy of monsters who all want something from her, and a Devil who's just realized he wants her most of all.
A dark gothic romantasy featuring:
- slow-burn romance
- infernal court politics
- morally gray demons
- enemies-to-something-worse
- monstrous femininity
- horror & mystery elements
- possessive tension
- "who did this to you?" energy
- emotional corruption arcs
Content Warnings:
This series contains mature themes including graphic violence, horror imagery, gore, psychological distress, coercive power dynamics, sexuality, nudity, profanity, themes of death and damnation, and later depictions/references of sexual violence.
Explicit content is off-page here - this is a censored/faded version, with links to find explicit content elsewhere.
Posted every Tuesday and Thursday without fail.
Note: HORDE was written in advance to serializing here and is registered with the US Copyright Office.
I only post on RR and Wattpad under TheHordeWorks, and on Patreon as "Horde by A.E. Payne". If you find my work anywhere else, it was not posted by me. Please do let me know.