Quick Synopsis – After her parents’ death, twenty-seven-year-old Brie has mastered the art of compartmentalization to survive her mind-numbing routine as a receptionist at a life insurance company. But when she accidentally catches her hot, uptight boss, Luke, performing an exorcism on Debra from accounting, her carefully ordered world implodes.

Swearing Brie to secrecy, Luke reveals he’s from a line of demon hunters and that demonic activity is spiking. But when her emotional support coworker vanishes, Brie is determined to find her. With nothing left to lose, she convinces Luke to let her join his rescue mission. The problem? Their destination is hell.

Now Brie and Luke must navigate a corporate underworld of monsters and bureaucratic nightmares while racing to save their colleague and repair a tearing veil between worlds. All before their growing feelings become irrelevant and hell claims them forever.

Song This Reminds Me Of – Highway to Hell by AC/DC (duh)

Publication Date – Sept. 1, 2026

Bookshop Link – I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell by Mackenzie Reed (I receive a commission if you purchase using this link)

Content Notes – There is body gore, blood, kidnapping, parental death, panic attacks, murder, assault, manipulation, and possession.

Spicy Rating – 🌶️🌶️

Rating – ⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

Review – This book was pretty good, but holy plot twist batman. It felt like every time one plot point got revealed, another one would pop-up. I didn’t love that part. It felt like enough after two it just felt like overkill. Seriously, it was like every two or three chapters a big plot point was dropped. Like literary whiplash. Other than a constant plot bomb going off, this was a fun read.

Brie is working in a smaller town outside of New York City. She was in her final years of med school when her parents died in a car accident. When that happened Brie left her life in Florida behind and tried to start over. She’s working as a receptionist for an insurance company where she has made a single good friend and sort of hates the rest of her coworkers. Well, sort of hates them because she has a hot boss, Luke. When she catches Luke exorcising a demon from there elderly coworker, her world is turned upside down.

The plot moves pretty quickly and is fun. There is good back and forth between the characters, even if it is a little bit cheesy at times. There some of that you make me feel type of dialogue which is a little too soap opera to me. The most fun part for me are the different descriptions of hell. Hell is basically the United States and each geographical division is a different governmental division. I’ve never seen Hell described that way and it really added to the story. It also filled in Luke’s backstory really well. I liked that both characters had good fleshed out backgrounds. Both had full lives before they met and being on their road trip gives them the opportunity to connect. I felt like their relationship developed naturally; it was like reading a romance based in the early seasons of Supernatural.

I would recommend this if you like a little romance and a little Hell.

Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for the advanced copy, all opinions are my own.