13 Steps Trilogy
Books about bargains, consequences, and the fine print no one reads soon enough.
Step into the world of the 13 Steps Trilogy, where ambition has a price, temptation comes with paperwork, and every bargain carries consequences. John D. McCoy’s novels blend suspense, dark humor, faith, law, and the supernatural into stories about people who want too much and discover too late what it may cost.
The Trilogy
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Book One
13 Steps Trilogy
It started as a thought.
A quiet idea no one else could hear.
What if everything you ever wanted was within reach?
What if the only thing standing in your way… was you?
For Smith, the answer comes in thirteen steps—each one simple, each one irreversible.
At first, the changes are small.
Almost unnoticeable.
Until they aren’t.
Because some choices don’t just change your life…
They claim it.

Book Two
13 Steps Trilogy
Smith got everything he wanted. Now he wants out.
The money came. The success came. The power came. Smith has the life he once envied, but the bargain that bought it has begun to close around him.
Mr. Sinclair keeps his contracts.
Desperate to escape the deal, Smith turns to Jack MacKay, a lawyer with a conscience, a stubborn streak, and no idea how dangerous his new client truly is. What begins as a legal problem becomes something far older and darker, pulling Jack, Rob, and Lucy into a fight where the Devil knows the rules better than anyone.

Book Three
13 Steps Trilogy
The Devil wants his verdict.
Smith made a deal for worldly success, and Mr. Sinclair has come to collect. But instead of fire and brimstone, the battle moves to a courtroom, where contracts, testimony, loopholes, and the law itself are forced to reckon with eternity.
Jack MacKay knows the case is impossible. His client sold his soul. The plaintiff is the Devil. The evidence is horrifying. The stakes are forever.
With Lucy, Rob, and Mike beside him, Jack must fight a trial unlike any court has ever seen. Witnesses take the stand. Secrets come to light. The bargain is examined word by word.
But Mr. Sinclair does not lose easily.
And Smith must finally understand what he traded away: not for wisdom, not for love, not for salvation, but for glittering things that cannot last.
Hell Hath No Jury is the final book in the 13 Steps trilogy, a darkly comic legal battle over ambition, damnation, and the foolishness of choosing the world over eternity.
What Readers Say
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★★★★★
Thought Provoking! Not my typical reading choice but it’s very well written.
In life you come across people that you think may have sold there soul to the devil and now when I meet someone like that it will resonate like a bell BONG….. they must have read 13 steps to sell your soul.

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★★★★★
Thirteen steps to sell your soul is already a book I’ve recommended to a lot of my colleagues and loved ones. It’s a tale of a man so miserable that the first chapters will groom you to feel such frustration with the state that Smith lived in

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