Somebody was fixing the maze at night.
Somebody else was watching her walk it.
A plywood corridor, a roof that won’t stop leaking, and two men who know the building better than she does.
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What You're Getting
The first year the Austin Knockout Roller Derby League built a haunted house, nobody in that building knew what they were doing. They had a leaking roof, a bank note coming due, and one Halloween to keep the league afloat.
Bianca Ruelas had four seasons of wearing a mask and going fast through gaps other people could not fit through. What she did not have was rent. So she took the corridor nobody wanted, the one with the bad sightline and the drop ceiling, and she learned to be the thing at the end of it.
Then the maze started improving overnight. A blind corner squared up. A screw countersunk that had been catching sleeves for a week. Somebody was coming into that building after close and quietly making it better, and the league had no budget for a carpenter and no idea who it was.
One of them tapered a wall so nobody could get stuck in it. One of them measured her.
Shane Doyle built every corridor in that building and can tell you the width of each one from memory. He is not the problem. He is going to spend a great deal of this book finding out what the problem is, roughly nine feet behind her, and arriving late.
Nobody Gets Out Clean is the Crucible three years before No One Skates Out Alive — the same warehouse, the same roof over turn three, the first haunt the league ever built with its own hands. It stands entirely on its own. It also explains a room you are going to walk into again.
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- Content notes, always, so Chapter One is never where you find out.
- Bonus scenes and character shorts, occasionally, unannounced.
- Nothing on Tuesdays. Ask me about Tuesdays sometime.
This is dark romance and it means the word. Stalking, an extended pursuit in the dark, a serious injury, and explicit intimacy between two consenting adults who negotiate it out loud every single time the shape of it changes.
The full content note is in the back of the book, where it can be specific without taking anything away from you. One thing you can have right now, because nobody should read a book braced for it. Nobody dies.
Not present in this book: Sexual assault of any kind, on the page or in the backstory. Cheating. Any deaths at all.
Not present anywhere in this series: Harm to animals. Ever. Humans are fair game.
Who's Writing This
Raven Nightfall writes dark romance for people who want the knife and the punchline. Her men are obsessive, her women are unimpressed, and nobody in her books gets a happy ending they didn't have to argue for out loud. She lives with her better half, too many notebooks, and a spoiled doberman.
Holiday Slay is seven holidays, seven bodies, and one roller derby league that refuses to fold. It starts with No One Skates Out Alive — October 30, and the preorder is up.
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