Nicholas Goodfellow is not the Devil - but he knows him. When the high-ranking, aristocratic demon first spies his new mission - a five-year-old orphan named Tyler Davis - he is insulted. But when he sees that his former friend, General Valiant, one of Heaven's mightiest warriors, has been charged with the boy's keep, he knows that something is afoot. Tyler knows nothing of these spiritual beings. As the tenderhearted lad grows up under the twisted rule of his dictatorial grandmother - experiencing physical, emotional, and religious abuse - he runs away at the age of sixteen, collapses on the...