{"id":1359,"date":"2026-05-29T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/?page_id=1359"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:37:05","slug":"to-hell-and-hopefully-back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/books-2\/to-hell-and-hopefully-back\/","title":{"rendered":"To Hell and hopefully back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/to-hell-500-jpg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/to-hell-500-jpg-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/to-hell-500-jpg-1-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d6a1cf530a75634692ea5a07baa7f7d8\">When the Devil sends an invite you cannot refuse &#8230;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-54d6da2110d605c9c55e4c3bc3eaa321 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px;text-indent:0px\">An imaginative and exciting novella, suitable for YAs and equally enchanting for older adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fifteen year old Stansie Ballare might take forever to get to sixteen. That is how it is for child vampires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But on a school break she has been given a bit of an adult job, filling in for her sister, the <em>Queen of Demons<\/em>, who is having to deal with her own emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She was told to listen to the adults and stay out of trouble. But trouble <em>always <\/em>has a way of following her around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">So, off to Hell she is going, to attend the funeral of an ancient Olympian god, and where it turns out her human, caring touch is so desperately needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-865de8f5730b414f4540e935cfa6d8e4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 LGBT Friendly Themes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Devil sends an invite you cannot refuse &#8230; An imaginative and exciting novella, suitable for YAs and equally enchanting for older adults. Fifteen year old Stansie Ballare might take forever to get to sixteen. That is how it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":686,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions\/1450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}