Nine Circles

Sydney was only supposed to drown. She wasn’t supposed to wake up in the Vestibule of Hell.

Now she's trapped in Dante’s nine circles amid merciless spirits and punishments that bite deeper than the wounds she inflicted on her best friend in life. Her only hope is a child who guides her toward freedom, while every step drags Sydney closer to the sins she’s desperate to forget.

When her guide vanishes, Sydney is left alone in the dark, hunted by souls who’d rather see her broken than free. She comes to understand that the harshest torments of Hell are the ones she carries inside. To escape, she must confront the one person she’s been running from: herself. Until she develops the self-compassion and grace to forgive her own mistakes, Hell will claim her forever.

Nine Circles is a modern story set in the dark underworld that Dante Alighieri immortalized in Inferno, the first part of his epic poem The Divine Comedy.