"Clever, inventive, and original, Kroese’s hilarious romp has cult favorite written all over it." —Booklist

The end of the world has never been this disorganized.

Christine Temetri is tired of chasing doomsday prophets. She’s spent years reporting on apocalyptic cults, false messiahs, and spiritual scams—and she’s ready to call it quits. But when a string of strange events leaves her homeless, hunted, and somehow at the center of an unfolding divine conspiracy, she realizes this might be more than just another fringe meltdown.

Enter Mercury: an angel with a gift for sarcasm, a disregard for protocol, and a suspicious talent for showing up at exactly the wrong time. He claims he’s here to stop the end of the world—but given his taste for junk food and chaos, Christine’s not convinced he isn’t making things worse.

With Heaven and Hell locked in a bureaucratic standoff and reality hanging by a thread, Christine and Mercury must navigate prophecies, celestial red tape, and increasingly unhinged supernatural agents to prevent the Apocalypse from being hijacked by the wrong side.

Fast-paced, funny, and gleefully irreverent, Mercury Falls is a smart supernatural comedy that turns the end times upside down.

"The Apocalypse is nigh in this whimsical, riotous debut. Christine Temetri, a freelancer for a popular religious news magazine, is tired of endless assignments covering cults incorrectly prophesizing the End of Days. When she talks her boss into giving her a better assignment, she doesn’t anticipate it will actually lead her back to a cult leader: the charismatic Galileo Mercury, who turns out not to be a cult leader at all, but a bona fide angel. Mercury is more interested in playing ping pong and drinking beer than he is in being involved in the upcoming Apocalypse. But when he and Christine escape a bit of divine retribution and end up saving the life of the Antichrist, a sulky gamer named Karl Grissom, they find themselves drawn into a miasma of heavenly intrigue and double-crossing. Lucifer himself is determined to find a loophole in the Apocalypse Accords, and Mercury and Christine are the only ones who can stop him. Clever, inventive, and original, Kroese’s hilarious romp has cult favorite written all over it." —Kristine Huntley, Booklist