Hellbound Series by Shonna Preston

After a broken engagement, Amelia Reid is starting over after ten years. Moving halfway across the state, she crashes on her lifelong best friend's couch as she gets back on her feet--the same best friend who hired her as a bartender at the bar where she works as a manager. Amelia has never tended a bar in her life. Despite not wanting to get involved with anyone too soon, she finds herself drawn to Josh, one of her coworkers... moreAfter a broken engagement, Amelia Reid is starting over after ten years. Moving halfway across the state, she crashes on her lifelong best friend's couch as she gets back on her feet--the same best friend who hired her as a bartender at the bar where she works as a manager. Amelia has never tended a bar in her life. Despite not wanting to get involved with anyone too soon, she finds herself drawn to Josh, one of her coworkers. He's sweet, thoughtful, and he's willing to tutor her in making drinks. Agreeing to take things slow, between his busy schedule and her timidness to get back into dating, they enjoy their time together when they can manage it. Though they plan to take their time, their connection is undeniable. The first night Amelia meets Dane, her co-bartender on the weekends, she's taken aback by how he speaks to her. Establishing a strange friendship based on lewd comments and innuendos, she tries to separate the way they talk to one another from the attraction she feels to him. When Josh has to return home for a family emergency, Dane comforts Amelia. He's doubly there when Josh calls and tells her they should stop seeing each other because he doesn't know when he'll return. After seeking comfort in him, she and Dane decide to be strictly friends with benefits. Something about Dane seems off, but she can't quite figure it out. It doesn't help that she's always exhausted—due to his unbelievable stamina and the nightmares she has when she finally goes to sleep. When Josh returns and she can be with him again, will Dane be so willing to let Amelia go? Will she have a choice in the matter? less

Amelia Reid made a horrible mistake. Having discovered that the man she found herself so desperately attracted to--even in the face of having found a man she loved--was a demon, she dealt with him in the only way that made sense. With an exorcism ritual, she found on the internet, she attempts to rid herself of the incubus. Things don't go as planned, and the city around her begins to shake apart... moreAmelia Reid made a horrible mistake. Having discovered that the man she found herself so desperately attracted to--even in the face of having found a man she loved--was a demon, she dealt with him in the only way that made sense. With an exorcism ritual, she found on the internet, she attempts to rid herself of the incubus. Things don't go as planned, and the city around her begins to shake apart. She and her friends barely make it out of the city with their lives, and as their car hits a ditch, going airborne, her last thought is how she won't be making it back to Josh.Waking up, dangling from her seatbelt, Amelia gets her friends to safety before dreading that the incubus will make good on his promise to return for her while they are still with her. When she finds a pair of strangers she can only see while touching a dagger someone threw at her; she doubts their claims of being angels.The angels inform her that it is up to her, as she gave him the power to do so, to shut the gate and send the incubus back to Hell, or Armageddon will begin. To close the gate, she must not only travel to the location but make it through a series of trials to get to the portal. Along the way, she must traverse the city filled with gangs of raiders driving the streets, escape being used as an offering to the demon prince Asmodeus, and learn to trust an angel, named Gabriel, who's a little too familiar and a little too attractive to her.When she and Gabriel arrive at the caves in which the gate is found, she must get through a gauntlet of sin-spelled areas meant to keep humans away. Will she make it through the caves without giving in to her pride, gluttony, envy, or greed? Or will she and Gabriel succumb to the lust they both feel and lose sight of the mission completely? less

Having prevented the apocalypse, Amelia believes that her ordeal is over. It's not until after she's cut off the wings of her guardian angel, Gabriel, that she starts to worry that that isn't the case. After confessing he pledged to Fall in exchange for Lucifer saving her life, she realizes the gravity of the act he had her commit. When Lucifer arrives to personally escort Gabriel, Dane is in tow... moreHaving prevented the apocalypse, Amelia believes that her ordeal is over. It's not until after she's cut off the wings of her guardian angel, Gabriel, that she starts to worry that that isn't the case. After confessing he pledged to Fall in exchange for Lucifer saving her life, she realizes the gravity of the act he had her commit. When Lucifer arrives to personally escort Gabriel, Dane is in tow. Gabriel also promised to serve Dane for the next five hundred years in Hell so long as Dane never comes near her again.As Lucifer takes Gabriel away, Amelia has to piece her life back together. After moving in with Sarah and Alex, she spends her days feeling depressed, guilty, and unable to exist as the human she knows she isn't. Without the ability to tell anyone what is wrong with her, she has no one to confide in--certainly not Dahlia, who has taken over guarding her.Six months later, she provokes Dahlia into showing up. Remembering that fateful day when Gabriel said he would have gone through Hell to find her, she realizes that she should do the same--if only so she doesn't have to carry around the guilt of him suffering in her place. After some convincing, Dahlia indirectly gives Amelia the solution to her problem of actually getting into Hell. Connecting her with a demon named Maz, Dahlia uses a millennia-old favor to get him to help Amelia find a way to get into Hell.Begrudgingly, Maz takes her down into Hell. They immediately begin to butt heads at every step along the way. Eventually, she discovers the reason Maz doesn't want her anywhere near him. As they follow leads to discover what happened to Gabriel and how they can get to him, they fight an attraction to each other. Finally giving in, she finds strength through Maz's encouragement that she's been missing. As they get close, she starts to worry if she'll ever see him after she and Gabriel leave Hell.With very little left for her on Earth, she wonders if she even has anything worth returning to, whether Gabriel will assume things will just pick up where they left off, and whether she'll be able to say goodbye to Maz when the time comes. less