Lilah's Guide to Hoyle

<h4><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>All life is a gamble . . . We go to sleep every night comfortably betting that the next day we'll wake up.</strong></h4><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>When the stakes are your soul every hand is a gamble.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>After a disastrous card game wipes out her college fund Lilah makes a desperate pact with a demon. The bargain binds her birthday gift-a deck of cards from her grandfather-to her blood turning every hand she plays into something more than a game.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Armed with Hoyle's Guide to Poker and Parlor Tricks a battered rulebook turned personal grimoire Lilah discovers that the right shuffle can unlock more of her power. But every trick pulls her further from who she was . . . and closer to the voice in the dark that owns her debt.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Across the city two detectives are tracking a string of bizarre crimes that keep escalating-clues pointing to a single suspect though none of it seems like coincidence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>With the demon's whispers growing louder and the law closing in Lilah must decide whether to fold before the final hand takes her humanity-or keep playing a game where every card could be her undoing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Urban fantasy meets high-stakes thriller.</span></p>