The Never Prayer

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Praise for The Never Prayer:

This book was full of wonderful writing and the story was amazing! I loved this
one! I recommend The Never Prayer to anyone who likes paranormal or even dark gritty YA contemporary romance.
–YABOUND Review

Aaron Michael Ritchey writes with a poetic grace that reminds me of a young Ray
Bradbury. The Never Prayer has the same haunting and timeless spirit of
Something Wicked This Way Comes. I highly recommend this novel. Just make sure
you give yourself some reading time once you begin, because you won’t want to
put it down.
–Bonnie Ranthum, author of The White Gates, a Junior Library Guild premiere selection

Beautiful writing and a story of courage, hope, and unselfish love mark this as a not-to-be-missed debut from an exceptionally gifted new talent.  I look forward to more
from Aaron Ritchey.
–Jeanne C. Stein, bestselling author of the Anna Strong chronicles

An engrossing supernatural smackdown between good and evil.
– Mario Acevedo, bestselling author of the Felix Gomez Vampire series

The prose is pitch perfect and captures the feeling of loneliness and despair so
many of us feel at different times in our lives when we think there must be
demons lurking everywhere. Sometimes we just need to be reminded that where
there are demons, there are angels too, and that all we might really need is a
little push to help us break the cycle.
–Michael Haspil

The Never Prayer is a bundle of tightly woven, perfectly balanced contradictions
and high stakes gambles.
–Bree Ervin

It was refreshing to read a YA tale that held fast to reality in all of the important ways while keeping a non-supernatural-guy hooked and hooked some more with the most likely of all “supernatural” realities. I am inspired to pray again and to “march for good.”
--Robert Hultman

Torn between her love for an Angel and a Demon, Lena thinks she knows the difference between Heaven’s Fury and Hell’s Desire.  She never had a prayer…

Blown in on the winds of storm, two mysterious boys show up in Avalon, Colorado: one wants to save Lena, the other will try to destroy her.

Fiercely independent, Lena doesn’t think she needs saving. And she has already been destroyed. After her parents are killed, she alone must take care of her little brother and her mentally ill aunt. She does this the only way she knows how–by living a life of crime and desperation.

Drawn into a hellish game of love and lust, Lena will have to walk the shadowy line between demon and angel, and in the end, the fate of her family and her soul will rest on the impossible decision she alone must make.

Filled with dark tension, yet transcendent with fragile hope, The Never Prayer is a page-turning thriller that will keep you guessing until its final, heart-breaking pages.

Available NOW from Crescent Moon Press! Buy it on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble,  IndieBound, or from your favorite local retailer!