Free Burn - Huff, Drew

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Résumé :
He's a lovestruck loser. She's a real firestarter. Teenager Triple-Six is an incarcerated loser with lobster-like pincers for hands and a deranged new girlfriend who just framed him for a brutal murder. To make matters worse, his girlfriend's mother is the infamous pyromaniac serial killer, Lorraine Worner, a woman with more than thirty victims and a dozen true-crime documentaries about her exploits. She was deceased until Triple-Six accidentally summoned her back to Earth. Now on the run from the human authorities and a number of Hell's wardens, furious at him for releasing one of their most prized prisoners, Triple-Six makes a Faustian bargain with Lorraine in a final bid to get out of this mess and ride off into the sunset with the troubled girl of his dreams. If he can survive for three days without Lorraine killing him, she'll give him his freedom and restore his malformed hands to normal. And maybe with normal hands, his girlfriend will finally love him--...

Biographie:
Drew Huff is the author of Free Burn, The Divine Flesh, The Exodontists, and Run to Beat the Devil. Born and raised in eastern Washington, Drew enjoys writing stories that explore the intricacies of trauma, body horror, and fear. Her short fiction has appeared numerous anthologies, including The Sacrament, It Was All A Dream, and Hot Iron and Cold Blood....

Sommaire:
He's a lovestruck loser. She's a real firestarter. Teenager Triple-Six is an incarcerated loser with lobster-like pincers for hands and a deranged new girlfriend who just framed him for a brutal murder. To make matters worse, his girlfriend's mother is the infamous pyromaniac serial killer, Lorraine Worner, a woman with more than thirty victims and a dozen true-crime documentaries about her exploits. She was deceased until Triple-Six accidentally summoned her back to Earth. Now on the run from the human authorities and a number of Hell's wardens, furious at him for releasing one of their most prized prisoners, Triple-Six makes a Faustian bargain with Lorraine in a final bid to get out of this mess and ride off into the sunset with the troubled girl of his dreams. If he can survive for three days without Lorraine killing him, she'll give him his freedom and restore his malformed hands to normal. And maybe with normal hands, his girlfriend will finally love him....