Chapter 11 in the Ninth Circle

Dark Fantasy – Urban Fantasy – Workplace Satire Mary Smith has spent her career cleaning up other people's financial disasters. She just never expected one of them to belong to Hell. At 11:59 p.m. on a brutal tax-season deadline, burned-out CPA Mary Smith accidentally files a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition for Belial, a demon lord drowning in billions of units of infernal debt. The mistake should cost her a reprimand, a ruined career, and a very uncomfortable conversation with her fiancé. Instead, it costs her soul. Dragged into the Ninth Circle, Mary discovers that Hell is less about fire and brimstone than paperwork, predatory lenders, ancient contracts, and bureaucracy designed to make eternal damnation feel like corporate middle management. With Belial's empire on the verge of liquidation, a ruthless financial syndicate preparing to seize his domain, and her own soul posted as collateral, Mary has one option: restructure Hell's most catastrophic balance sheet before the creditors come to collect. Armed with bankruptcy law, forensic accounting, and absolutely no patience for demons who cannot reconcile a ledger, Mary goes to war with Hell's most powerful financiers. Because sometimes the only thing standing between a demon lord and financial ruin is a very angry CPA. A darkly comic urban fantasy and workplace satire about corporate greed, infernal bureaucracy, female empowerment, and the most dangerous weapon in Hell: a perfectly balanced spreadsheet.