Kylie Lee Baker writes fantasy and horror, including Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng and Japanese Gothic. Hell to Pay follows three roommates confronting a demon.
Leni, Emerson and Jasper are already struggling to keep their New York household together when a demon gives them seven days to produce a sacrifice. Each roommate carries a disturbing personal history, and protecting their chosen family soon becomes a problem with practical as well as supernatural costs. Baker’s darkly comic horror sets an impossible demand against rent, work and the limits of what people will do for one another.