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Every house cat has secrets.
Lucifer has an agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Michael rescued a shivering tuxedo kitten on a rainy night, he thought he\u2019d found a companion. What he actually brought home was a charming apocalypse wrapped in fur. Behind the purrs and head-butts lurks a strategist, a tyrant-in-waiting, a would-be ruler of shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From yarn spun into occult sigils to kibble maps of global conquest, Lucifer\u2019s rise unfolds in a series of eerie, hilarious vignettes that blur the line between everyday cat antics and world domination. Michael, ever the devoted human, remains blind to the truth his living room has become the throne room of a would-be conqueror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hell in a Tuxedo<\/em>\u00a0is a gothic-satirical fable for adult<\/a>s who suspect their cats are plotting something more than naps. Darkly whimsical, slyly funny, and wickedly illustrated in prose, it\u2019s a bedtime story for grown-ups who know the devil wears whiskers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every house cat has secrets.Lucifer has an agenda. When Michael rescued a shivering tuxedo kitten on a rainy night, he thought he\u2019d found a companion. What he actually brought home was a charming apocalypse wrapped in fur. Behind the purrs and head-butts lurks a strategist, a tyrant-in-waiting, a would-be ruler of shadows. 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