Dean Winchester got one year. One year with Lisa and Ben, one year of home and family and all the things he'd thought he wanted for his entire life. One year before the monsters came back and found him. One year before Sam turned up on his doorstep with a mission but without a soul.

It took them five months to get Sam his soul back, but once the younger Winchester was restored, things immediately started going to Hell. Literally. First the Wall that was supposed to protect Sam from his own memories failed. All of a sudden demons were everywhere, working on projects no hunter could understand, things that made no sense that anyone could patch together. Then the angels started acting openly on earth, making everything even more confusing and dangerous. Sam and Dean's relationship suffered under the strain, a few months ago they split and started hunting separately. Because there was so much to do, they said. Just temporarily, they said. But there are events taking shape that are already working to push the brothers back toward one another.

The dead are returning. Familiar faces, old friends and foes who ought to be long gone to their rest. Some, the angels have been bringing back. Others are Hell's avatars. The angels teeter on the brink of civil war, the demons squabble among themselves to find a new King, and all sorts of old debts are coming in due.

It’s now or never. It’s time we start
Givin’ The Devil His Due