Daemonia

Whenever Maddy has to travel to Portland, Oregon, on business, she checks up on Chris from afar, hoping he’s finally moved on with his life. But in the more than thirty years since she disappeared on him, Chris has never been able to commit to any long-term relationships. Even worse, he never stopped looking for her, and he uses all the resources of his prestigious detective agency in his attempts to find her.

At first, she really thought leaving Chris was for the best. She would have never forgiven herself if he had discovered her dark secret and then gotten himself killed by attempting to break the curse she was under. Or could her actions simply be ascribed to cowardice because she couldn’t bring herself to tell the man she loved she wasn’t quite human? In the meantime, she wonders whether she did the right thing by leaving, and she's heartbroken at the thought of the pain she must have caused him.

Daemonia is about Madeleine, or Maddy, as she is usually called, a 376-year-old enchantress, who hates being called a witch as much as she hates being called the B-word. When Maddy saves a high school junior from getting raped, she suddenly finds herself tossed into a world of drugs, human trafficking, fraud, and murder. With this turbulent turn of events, can she still balance her daytime job as the successful art broker Danielle Michaels with her secret nighttime persona as a winged demoness, or will the circumstances expose her, endangering her friends and herself?

The story is set in the same universe as the author's Selanian Chronicles (a parallel timeline, which is why there's no Coronavirus), but several years after the events of the series. The events take place between March 16 and March 30, 2020, in Portland, Oregon, and Ashland, a smaller town in Southern Oregon.