Road Through the Burning Dark: The Road Home Runs Through Hell and His Family’s Darkest Secret. Demons & Devils Paranormal Romance

Cole Mercer only wants to disappear long enough to build a future with Eliza and the child she is carrying.

Harrow Island seems like the perfect place to hide: remote marshland, an old family house, and a grandmother Cole barely knows but desperately needs. Yet the island is already waiting for him. A dead boy is trapped inside a forgotten cemetery. Shadows move where children should not be. And the Mercer family history is soaked in a violence no one has told Cole about.

By morning, Cole is dead.

But death is not the end of the road.

Thrown into a brutal world beyond the living, Cole must cross rivers of the dead, survive cities built on suffering, and bargain with creatures that treat human souls as currency. Somewhere in that burning darkness lies the truth about his bloodline—and a path back to the woman he promised he would never abandon.

Back on Harrow Island, Eliza is alone, pregnant, and surrounded by people whose kindness hides motives she cannot see.

Every mile Cole travels pulls him deeper into a legacy older than his own sins. Every answer makes home more dangerous.

To save his family, Cole must discover what the Mercers did to the dead before the dead come to collect what they are owed.