Peter Farris is the award-winning author of Last Call for the Living and The Clay Eaters. Published in France to critical acclaim, The Devil Himself won Le Prix 813 and was an official selection for the prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière among other accolades. He lives in Georgia with his family.

Deep in the forest of South Georgia, eighteen-year-old Maya narrowly escapes a vast human trafficking operation managed out of Mexico. Her fate seemed sealed, until Leonard Moye, a lonely eccentric who tolerates no one on his land, takes the young woman under his protection. Both having lived lives that have left deep scars, each consumed by anger, they soon develop a bond that makes them, as a pair, a formidable foe, even for hardened criminals and professional scumbags.