Dedications and Other Words

Apprentice in probation to the demon Mephistopheles, Archduke of Hell, fourteen-year-old Jo has to survive her thirty days of Training in Hell and the Test. Failure means Death and Damnation for Jo and her family, and success means Damnation for Jo and Survival for her family.

The choice is obvious.

But it was only a chance, and that chance not only hangs on Jo's ability to grasp the skills of a magician of Hell within a month or how far Jo is willing to go down to the dark side, such as partaking in a casual conversation about the Art of Torture. The chance hangs also on her life. A life that is balanced precariously between an insane Training in Hell and - soon, she finds out - Trouble from Home.