To Hell and Back
core novel 2008 Dante Valentine
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.85 (4,615 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316028394 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
To Hell and Back closes out the Dante Valentine series with its necromancer heroine returned to her own world after a literal ordeal in Hell itself, her body shattered and her mind not far behind, dumped back among the living to serve, or so Lucifer intends, as a pawn in one more of his endless infernal games. Rather than accept the role assigned to her, Dante emerges from her ordeal determined to turn the tables on the very forces that have manipulated her from the beginning of the series, channeling everything she has left, physical, magical, and otherwise, into confronting Lucifer on her own terms. Pushed past what should have broken her entirely, Dante sets out to make sure that, this time, the reckoning falls on the Devil rather than on her.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dante Valentine
- Series: Dante Valentine core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Notes
- From the series record (Dante Valentine): Completed 5-book urban fantasy sequence; all five novels are the whole of the Core Canon.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Dante Valentine: position 5 of 5: previous Saint City Sinners (2008)
Sources
← Dante Valentine dossier · All universes
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