The unwanted son of the resident town drunk is traded by his father for half a bottle of wine when illness places him into the crosshairs of a rather vile mad doctor who forces the boy into his service due to his surprisingly keen intellect in a bid to feed his wayward ambitions and projects that had been far too advanced for his own mind to comprehend, the result of the indentured service had afforded the boy comforts despite continued abuse by yet another drunkard when disappointment had been too much to bare as well as jealousy of the lad becoming a man in his own right in the wake of his vast intellect and social skills affording him the admiration of his master's colleagues and the affections of a beautiful wealthy heiress betrothed to another despite being in love with the brilliant lad, madness, and jealousy get the better of the ambitious doctor and he sees his way to chasing a rather dark artifact that becomes the undoing of his young apprentice and the rebirth of a monster far worse than he ever could have imagined being himself. Far removed from the kind-hearted and curious intellectual lad he'd been since the darkness overtook his young heart and he'd been once more abandoned, young Sepphoris Phaeron Darius Blackmore returned to the land of the living a wealthy and world-renowned Doctor in his own right, but harboring a deep resentment for mankind and his mysterious affliction courtesy of the dark artifact and his former master.
In the epic conclusion to the Devil's Deal series, Freya has one final chance to discover the full potential of her own power, and to use it to restore balance in the universe - once and for all. After the destruction caused by Roisin, Ferya and Torix come to terms with their losses and mistakes... And prepare for a final battle that will change everything.