Haven: Book Seven of "The Liminality"
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When it comes to suffering and damnation, eternity is a long time. Too long, for Grehl O'Grady, a summoner of seams - the rarest of arts in the sulfurous and punishing after realm of Sheol - seeks a better place for her fellow souls. With the aid of Urszula, a fiery woman banished to Sheol after a botched attempt to hijack passage into an Upper Realm, they find their way to a singed and abandoned place where a curious soul named James has settled much to his girlfriend's chagrin. The Powers-That-Be attempt to restore order to the chaos that has become of the Afterlands, but things are only growing worse.
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