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When Rhea shoots Deacon, she doesn’t expect him to die. After all, he’s the son of Satan, a fact that hadn’t kept her from falling in love with him. Or being angry at his betrayal. Or from shooting him. As a warning, of course. Because Deacon didn’t have feelings, he wasn’t mortal. So why was he bleeding and so still?
Deacon has come back to Penance, Texas in 1882 to make things right with Rhea. To stop her from grieving over him. He’d purposely made it appear like he’d betrayed her because he knew she was falling in love with him, and he knew that could never be. His father had beaten that lesson into him, even if the Devil hadn’t been able to beat Rhea out of his mind. Of course, he didn’t have a heart. So why did he care so much about her that, to be with her, he accepted the cruel punishments his father meted out.
Rhea struggles against the feelings of her heart with all her soul as Deacon struggles with his feelings in the absence of a soul. There are secrets that will test Rhea and Deacon and shed a chilling light on the past. But it is the future they must keep from the hand of fate.
Laura Drewry has written an intriguing storyline that complements the setting of the Old West where souls were often lost and found again. Dancing with the Devil is about survival, about the stories we tell to keep up appearances and the lies that trap even good people. And about the endurance of the spirit to overcome life’s cruelest blows. Anyone who can make the son of the Devil heroic knows how to weave a good tale. A keeper.
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