As terminal brain cancer tightens its grip, Stan believes the mysterious stranger haunting the edges of his life is nothing more than another hallucination. He's wrong.
Waiting at Devlins Knott is Nicolas Fallen - and a health-and-safety waiver that was never about protection. One signature changes everything.
Stan suddenly begins to feel better, and a routine hospital scan leaves doctors searching for answers they will never find. But every miracle comes with a price, and Stan knows who is coming to collect.
Determined to make the most of his unexpected second chance, Stan starts a new life in Scotland, finding friendship, purpose, and the possibility of a love he never thought he'd live long enough to experience. Yet every step forward draws him deeper into a game he never agreed to play.
With Daemon Darkling, Fallen's sardonic lackey, twisting each victory into another impossible choice, and Stan forced in babysitting a mysterious child.
"Bloody mysterious. Is that what they're callin' um these days?"
Stan must confront the question he never wanted to answer.
How many souls would you sacrifice to save your own?
Stanley Banks Devlins Knott is a story about love, loyalty, and the soul a man thought he had already lost.