Hope. Magic. Balance. The true, holiest of causes. Eighteen-year-old Gracie Caine wants to live a simple, normal life after leaving Ariel's Gate Orphanage. All she has is a photographic memory and a twisted club foot, but she feels good about herself until a shocking set of unexpected wings and a deadly war turn her hopeful future into something very different. She has awakened to a secret world of angels and demons, bloody war and terror. It's a world unseen by humans, veiled in magic, inhabited by breathing archangels and ancient beings, and ruled by battle strategy, money, and power. Realizing that normal will never happen for the only known surviving pure Nephilim, Gracie is set on a precarious path burdened with the duty to protect her entire race. A promise was made in the beginning and the Nephilim are failing miserably. Their end is near, generating serious danger to human beings and the planet. Gracie must deal with her own fears and limitations, the diverse elements of their race, and those who wish to destroy it in a desperate effort to regain balance between good and evil.
Über den Autor Deborah Riley-Magnus
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Deborah Riley-Magnus is an author and an author success coach. Her fiction is creative and magical, beginning with the Twice-Baked Vampire Series books 1 and 2, Cold in California and Monkey Jump. A fascination with the battle between good and evil plays out in fantastical worlds built for her specific stories, worlds that deliver childlike curiosity, dark explorations of human nature, and the struggle to remain strong in the face of danger and loss. Deborah lives in beautiful Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and writes in her quiet home office overlooking the sparkling city with three rivers. Seeing that view has spurred fantasies of mystical Native American peoples who lived along those rivers, the constant what if? and the occasional shifting vision of dragon tails whipping around the glass castle spires atop the PPG building. Are there trolls under the million bridges? Does a monster dwell in the fourth river beneath the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers? Does the ghost of a little girl really sing in the hundred-year-old hallway behind her as she writes? This is where real fantasy comes from. And it makes this author smile.
