The Devil's Trials
6 primary works
Book 1
The devil was thrown from the old world and, bypassing hell, he landed in Kaida.
He dragged seven corrupted angels with him, and they rose as the embodiment of the deadly human sins. Beneath their rule the world was ravaged and reborn. The angels encouraged and punished a sinners' nature and their influence, demons and temptation killed in equal measure.
The devil quickly grew bored. Once a decade he offered the humans a series of trials. Face a challenge from each of the seven deadly sins and triumph, and in return he would grant every benefit of the devil’s favour, including immortality.
Pure desperation pushed Octavia Nox to enter the devil’s trials, she just wants to survive another day. All too soon she is forced to confront the first of the sins. Where she must face the reality that she could be a sinner at heart, and these sins may just eat her alive.
Book 2
Gluttony may as well have taken a bite from Octavia's heart.
There's little time to grieve the outcome of the Gluttony trial as she enters Invidia, a city of barely contained envy, where everyone wants what the other possesses. The competitors of the devil's trials are sent belowground with no special treatment and tasked to play Envy's favourite game, Heist of Haures.
Below the city streets new friends are found in unlikely places, and danger follows her like a shadow. All while Octavia attempts to steal a piece of the old world from Invidia's elite to secure her safety. However, in a city so covetous nothing ever goes to plan, and Octavia finds herself on a path to steal from the very heart of Envy's most treasured collection.
It might just be the deadliest heist of her life.
Book 3
War is coming . . .
Envy and Wrath have a feud that has transcended generations, and along with the other competitors of The Devil’s Trials, Octavia must navigate through dangerous terrain, facing monsters and men, to the arid Wrathlands.
There, she will face the sin of Wrath.
The lion-branded war camps are a dangerous place, their heralding angel a frenzy of tumultuous rage and death. Octavia finds herself tasked to train for a war she would rather avoid. She’s not sure she has what it takes physically, mentally, or emotionally to succeed without the devil’s aid.
Octavia has fought her way to defeat Gluttony and Envy, but can she survive a war?
Book 4
Escorted into Glorae on the arm of an angel, Octavia is still reeling from the trauma of war. She finds herself the sole recipient of Pride’s attention. Inadvertently becoming a puppet in his games to rile the devil and obligated to follow his every command.
Passing the fourth devil’s trial is her only means to escape him. The Tower of Hubris has seven levels and challenges to test wit, intelligence, and resourcefulness. Octavia must finish it. Except passing the tower doesn’t mean passing the trial. Pride values confidence, excellence, and achievement, but the devil wants humility.
Can Octavia face her reflection, swallow her pride, and pass the trial? Or will Pride bring her to her knees?
Book 5
Pride has commanded an impossible feat: Octavia must finish the devil’s trials and eliminate the devil, or find herself forfeit to him.
Meanwhile, Niklaus Heira has stolen her away to the Wastelands Rebellion. Too far from the trials, she finds herself stranded in a hive of anger and treason. Where they demand that she join their attack on Eternis, unaware of the devil whispering in her ear, watching their every move.
Escaping the rebellion alongside an unlikely ally, Octavia must find her way to Desidia, the home of Sloth, to face her next trial. In a land where humanity is forced into an endless slumber, she falls prey to chaotic worlds of dreams and nightmares, exploring realms that offer everything she desires most, from forbidden love, to those lost from her past, with only one catch, if she stays too long, she may never leave.
Confronted with a loss that leaves her reeling, Octavia is tempted to hide from reality and exist only in the world of her dreams. Except Pride, Sloth and Samael may all lay claim to her soul, and she can’t escape the devil in her dreams.
Book 6
The Festival of Hearts is a celebration of love, lust, and connection. Lord Lust invites everyone who dare to participate to visit Cupiditas Eylandt for a two week stay.
On the eve of the celebration, the ferries stop running, once you arrive you must stay until the celebration ends. Octavia is exhausted, still recuperating the energy stolen by Sloth, and reeling from the death of her friend. There’s no time to rest, the festival begins the day after the competitors arrive on the island.
Thrown into a series of rituals designed to increase tension and build connection, Octavia finds herself growing closer and closer to new friends, lulled into the ethos of the festival and on the brink of exploring all it has to offer.
Lust has many forms and Octavia must learn control in face of temptation before the festival, and sin itself, claims her body and heart.