Salt and Silver » (Original)

ANNA KATHERINE has traveled the world, and several parallel ones as well, and has discovered nothing is more awesome than duct tape. She currently splits her time between the East Coast and the Midwest.

Allie’s got a diner…and a Doorway to Hell. Every day she does what she can to keep her customers fed, and to prevent them from being fed upon. And when the Door disappears, Allie is determined to search all of Brooklyn, even venturing into Hell itself, to solve the mystery and protect the innocent.

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review.

This lively tale of demons and gods, the debut effort of Katherine Macdonald and former Tor editor Anna Genoese, opens six years after witty, sarcastic Allie, a trust fund baby turned Brooklyn diner manager, inadvertently generates a door to hell in the diner's basement with the help of her childhood friend Stan. Leather-clad demon fighter Ryan shows up in response and soon becomes Allie's love interest. Now new doors are beginning to appear, leaving the human world vulnerable to invaders from the underworld. As Allie, Stan and Ryan join forces with a witch and rival clans of demon hunters in hopes of restoring balance between supernatural beings and human "mundanes," Genoese and Macdonald mix multiple mythologies into a charming, biting cautionary narrative about taking responsibility for one's actions.
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