Ryan Thomas has a successful pub in the Chesapeake Bay town of Nevis, a girlfriend he adores, and a new life away from his criminal past. Everything is perfect until he discovers that second chances are not free, and what he owes is too steep a price to pay. In a case of mistaken identity, the pub owner fights for his soul against a job-weary immortal who believes the time has come to pay up for past roguish ways--including his own. Hamelin Russell denies he is an angel, but will admit to being immortal. Ryan Thomas doesn't care who he is. He just wants Hamelin to take his Damocles aurascope, stop tormenting him and disappear back into the ether. Instead, Ryan finds himself thrust into a cosmic game where the rules are stacked against him, and a poor showing will send him hurtling on an express train straight to hell. "I get a little rogue when I'm bored-limits my career potential, but what can you do?" ---Hamelin Russell--- Book One in the series: The Pickle Boat House Book Three in the series: The Clockwise Carousel (Fall 2016)