Beth by Jennifer Stevenson (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia) is the 1st novel in her Coed Demon Sluts series of satirical chick-lit paranormal urban fantasy comedy, centred around the premise of women in bad life experiences who turn them into humorous ones by signing up to become demonic succubuses for fun and profit, this one finding a middle-aged woman in a midlife crisis answering the call, free for a limited time courtesy of the author herself via backlist author republishing consortium Book View Café.
NB: Despite the ostensibly sexy premise of their new profession, apparently these are comedic and flirty rather than seriously steamy. There's also an accompanying series where men are/become incubuses.
Currently free @
B&N,
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK),
Kobo &
iTunes (all available to Canadians), and directly from
the BVC's webstore (DRM-free ePub & Mobi available worldwide; requires billing address during checkout, but no payment info or account signup required)
Two additional stories in this universe are part of the BVC's monthly deals (possibly about to expire shortly, as they were for last month):
Jee, the 2nd novella in this series, and
It's Raining Men, the 1st novel in the accompanying Slacker Demons series for the incubuses, and you can see them on the
monthly specials page.
Description
Aren’t you tired of doing everything right?
Wouldn’t you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?
Coed Demon Sluts: There’s always room on the team.
Beth is fifty, dumped by her husband for the babysitter, jobless, skill-less, homeless, cashless. She’s about to jump in front of a bus when she meets Delilah, recruiter for the “Regional Office” and receives an offer she can’t refuse: become a succubus for the Second Circle of Hell. Heartbroken, Beth decides to use the powers of her new sex demon body and the remains of her thrown-away life to track down her ex-husband and find out why he dumped her.
But Beth can’t get any information without help from her team, and she can’t accept their help until she learns something about what she has become–a coed demon slut–about who she’s always really been, and who she wants to be from now on.