Jeff the Incubus - E-book - ePub

Jeff Nichols is a train wreck. He drinks too much, but that is to escape his life's pain. He is an insurance adjuster and fraud investigator in the industrial wasteland of Schottsville, Pennsylvania, a steel town capable of grinding down the hardiest of individuals. His health issues promise him a young death in his mid-40s, and heavy drinking numbs the torment of his existence. His sole prized possessions in life, a rusty 1981 AMC Gremlin, and Chivas Regal are the two things he finds joy in.
His estranged sons, William (Vato) and Fred (Loco) Nichols are in prison after being caught running an NFT scam and are imprisoned in the federal incarceration system. They engineer a daring, deadly breakout with the help of their four wives and commit an equally daring bank robbery to fund their flight to their safe house in Florida, where they plan to change their identities and flee the country.
Meanwhile, Jeff ends his work week with a "Dear John" letter from his wife, who leaves him when their sons' escape and robbery hit the news cycle. Turning on his television, he decides that he must be back at his office on Friday night to drink and work on his cases, the one thing that justifies his existence. He'll be able to get drunk there since the office will be empty and work on his claims. But after consuming the entire bottle, he stumbles, fractures his skull on the floor, and dies.
Jeff then finds himself in Limbo, with Lucifer welcoming him back home, and learns that he was an incubus who was punished for showing mercy to the souls entering Hell by living the mortal existence he found himself in while alive. Jeff Nichols is Xaopza, the son of a succubus named Elysia who seduced a priest who became a Nephilim named Braulin upon dying. Upon learning of his true nature and why his life was the way it was, he is imbued with the undeniable desire to return through the portal which brought him to Limbo with his newfound abilities and save his sons, who did what they did in their lives unknowingly because they were part demonic.
With the help of his mother, who is killed by his father and then regenerated for forgiveness by the Creator when Braulin takes Elysia to Heaven, Xaopza escapes Limbo and returns to his mortal form. He finds himself back on the floor of the office lobby, where he died, but he's healed, and there is no sign that anything wrong happened. He feels better than he has since he can remember, by contrast.
His energy level is high, and his mood is optimistic now that he knows what he is and that he has escaped his fate. Lula Vasquez shows up at the door early for an interview. He lets her in, and she is seduced by his inexplicable charisma, even though he is still physically like he was. After a raucous lovemaking session in the office during pre-work hours, they leave Schottsville together. Jeff remembers that his sons are on the run and feels obligated to save them from an inevitable fate in the realm he escaped.
Roping in nonagenarian cowboy Shem Rosenberg, a man he was investigating for fraud who kicked his ass at the liquor store before Jeff died, the three set out to find new lives in the process of possibly saving the Nichols brothers by telling them of their true immortal roots. Braulin and a reborn Elysia have the same in mind for their son, who they want to have the happiness they were denied while living by the cruel hand of Lucifer in the mortal realm.
They also realize that they were meant to be together as a couple and want to thwart Lucifer, who wants his incubus and succubus back. Lucifer unleashes his army, the Dybbuks, in the mortal realm to chase his incubus Xaopza, now a new-and-improved Jeff with a Gremlin condition that improves with his, and to bring him back to Limbo. Jeff has no intention of going and will fight the hordes of Hell to reunite with his sons, who are on the run from the same forces without knowing it.
The battle for a soul has never been better and is n...