3 Chords and a Lie · Book three · In development
Devil to Pay
Every demon keeps a ledger that must be balanced.

Currently being written
The last note has not resolved.
Caleb is now a star, carrying Appalachian New Grass onto bigger stages. Shelby is a pillar of White Oak Hollow. Danny keeps showing up where he can, fighting himself more than the world.
Seeking quiet in the wake of Caleb’s rising fame, Danny retreats to the lake and the slow craft of building wooden boats. It is honest work—the kind that settles a man’s hands even when his mind will not sit still. But the lake has a way of holding secrets.
Devil to Pay will close the trilogy with quiet tension and haunting beauty: a story where the hardest battles are fought alone, and the heaviest answers are the ones no one hears out loud.
- Series
- 3 Chords and a Lie
- Position
- Book three
- Status
- In development
- Tone
- Dark, elegiac, Appalachian noir