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REBEKAH LYNN
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R.L. Rivers · Dark urban fantasy author of The Damned City series
"Steel. Silence. Survival."
What Readers Are Saying
"Atmospheric and brutal"
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"A heroine who burns through every page"
Goodreads Reviewer
"Dark, sharp, and impossible to put down"
Book Blog Review
"Urban fantasy with real teeth"
Early Reader
"Luce is the anti-hero we've been waiting for"
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The Damned City Series
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Devil's Daughter
Is A Demon Hunter
Luce has spent the last three thousand years hunting down demons for her father. She finds the greatest challenge of her long life in battling beside the archangel Raziel to find The Spear, a god killer weapon stolen from the heavens.
Book One of The Damned City Series
"Every bond has a cost, and every heart has a truth."
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City of
Lost Angels
Meet Jahael — Jay for short — the Keeper of The Undertaker Bar. In the shadows beneath Los Angeles, where the damned drink and the desperate make deals, Jay holds the line between order and oblivion. But when the city above begins to bleed into the world below, even a keeper's authority has limits.
Book Two of The Damned City Series
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Enter The World
The Damned
City
Beneath the streets of Los Angeles lies a world that would shatter the language of most men. No lakes of cartoon fire. No endless screaming chasms. Hell is older and more disciplined than mortal fear allows.
Towers climb in geometric severity from the dark, their surfaces inlaid with metal that gleams like wet blood or tarnished gold. Bridges hang between spires at impossible heights.
"Hell did not need spectacle. It had infrastructure."
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Chapter One
Steel, Silence, and Survival
The apartment kept no true clock. There were mechanisms that pretended to be one. A black watch face on the narrow table by the door. The pale green crawl of the microwave above the stove. The city's distant electric pulse filtering through reinforced glass. But none of them meant anything here. Not really. Not in the rooms Luce had made for herself.
Time in her apartment was measured in other things. In cooling wax. In the thinning scent of iron. In the amount of tension living behind her ribs. In whether the wards were quiet.
She stood barefoot on dark wood worn satin-smooth beneath her feet and laid the first knife on the table.
The blade was short, triangular, and ugly in a way only useful things ever were. No ornament. No vanity. Just a grip wrapped in black cord and a steel edge honed so fine it barely existed until light struck it. Luce turned it once between her fingers, then drew her thumb across the flat, not the edge. Feeling weight. Feeling balance. Memory lived there. Every weapon had one.
About The Author
Rebekah Lynn Rivers
Rebekah Lynn Rivers writes dark urban fantasy that lives in the shadows between worlds. Her work explores the tension between duty and desire, the weight of ancient power, and the quiet violence of survival in places where the rules are written in blood.
Her debut series, The Damned City, unfolds beneath the streets of Los Angeles, where Hell operates not as chaos but as infrastructure — a governed realm of towers, processional roads, and bureaucratic precision. At its center stands Luce, the Devil's daughter, who has spent three thousand years hunting demons and navigating the politics of the infernal.
When not writing, Rebekah can be found exploring the darker corners of storytelling, building worlds where every shadow has a name and every silence carries weight.
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