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Grayson Hale, an American graduate student in Scotland, becomes infamous after confessing to the murder of his classmate and claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found dead in his prison cell, a handwritten manuscript offers a way into the story behind his confession—and the question of whether he was delusional or telling the truth.

Told in Hale’s first-person account, the novel follows his studies at the University of Edinburgh and a ghostwriting job for a mysterious stranger. Hale’s satanophobia—a rare condition that leaves him terrified the Devil is after him—complicates his efforts to separate fear from fact. Readers drawn to psychological suspense, modern Gothic fiction, and stories that unsettle the boundary between the supernatural and the imagined may find this a gripping choice.