When the choice is an arranged marriage to a half-wit, or flight into the antechamber of Hell, Deborah chooses to face the Demon.
When the bombs of the final war destroy the Earth and blow open the gates of Hell, Abaddon, the angel of the bottomless pit crawls out into the ruins of the world to make the Earth his own.
The survivors of the cataclysm huddle in the eternal, corrupt city of Providence. Its religious leaders, the Elders have reduced the city to an outpost of Hell, and only one person seems to have noticed - Deborah.
Deborah is fifteen years old, angry and profoundly unhappy. Wrenched from her parents at the age of five, all the future holds for her is marriage to a deranged idiot. But Deborah decides that even the demon-infested desert must be better than life with the drooling Hector, and embarks on a journey to find her long-lost, vilified mother - the Green Woman.
Deborah runs, only vaguely aware of her mother’s importance, knowing nothing of her own. But somebody has recognised her power and unleashed all the hounds of Hell - to prevent the reunion of mother and daughter, to prevent the destruction of Gehenna.
Abaddon.