Author Event: DEVIL INSIDE by Clay McLeod Chapman

We are beyond excited to welcome Clay McLeod Chapman to our bookstore to discuss his newest title, DEVIL INSIDE! This presentation will be in conversation with Volunteer Coordinator and horror writer, Cate Cooke!

The $5 ticket is an RSVP to this event. You will recieve the $5 back in the form of a coupon to use at the time of the event. The $18.99 ticket is an RSVP and you will recieve a copy of DEVIL INSIDE!

THIS BOOK IS A ROMANCE READERS BOOK CLUB PICK! We love a dark romance.

Learn about the book: DEVIL INSIDE

A man who’s back from the dead meets a woman who’s from somewhere even worse in Clay McLeod Chapman’s new horrormance about love, possession, and just a little murder.

After a traumatic accident that almost cost Jordan his life, he’s finally starting to feel normal again. Well, maybe not normal. Everything tastes like ash, and when he looks at the people around him, their faces start to melt. At least he’s not dead, right? His friends are doing their best to get him back on his feet, maybe find someone to talk to, perhaps even find someone to take his mind off his last failed relationship.

Then he meets Lilith. The two share an instant connection but after a wild and passionate night together, she ghosts him. Jordan searches the city for Lilith, desperate to see her again. But when a woman claiming to be Lilith shows up, wearing a different face but knowing intimate details about Jordan, he worries he’s losing his grip on reality. As he grows closer to this mysterious woman, he discovers that happily ever afters sometimes come at a cost. How far will Lilith take him, and how much darkness will he embrace to find love?

About the author: Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.

About the mediator: Cate Cooke

Cate Cooke is a writer, musician, and a self-appointed village witch from Ocean County, NJ. Passionate about the weird and uncanny, she pens tales about sad ghosts and magical folks in her own “New Jersey Gothic” style. 

Cate graduated from Georgian Court University with bachelor's degrees in English and Digital Communications, and has taken her love for storytelling across various industries throughout her professional life. She has made her home in the literary world, proudly serving as Volunteer Coordinator at Asbury Book Cooperative since May 2025, and as a writing instructor with Project Write Now since February 2026.

When she’s not out haunting the shelves of her local library, Cate is at home curled up on the couch with a good ghost story and her dog, Athena.