Ashes Still Burn

The Demons of Ashburn あらすじ・解説

* Originally, this title was sold and recorded under the title of "Ashburn."

Last night, David Steele was an aging one-hit-wonder facing certain death. After he makes a deal with a powerful demon that answers his desperate call, he wakes up the next morning, alive and healthy in the Ashburn suburbs, but in someone else’s body.

His new identity comes with some nice perks at least—a smoking hot girlfriend, a big McMansion to call home, his own used bookstore, and a guitar made by a god.

Plus, well, he's also not dead.

The bad news is that his new body used to belong to a demon no one likes, his girlfriend’s a succubus with a taste for human hearts, and his dog’s a hound from Hell.

All David wants to do is rock and roll, but his new life carries a heavy price tag. He has to serve the next ten years as Ashburn's supernatural enforcer—a prospect made all the more terrifying by the fact that a few hours into his new gig, people start dying…

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