"A dark, compelling thriller that will keep readers turning the pages well past bedtime."- Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times Best Selling Author."... is as exciting on the first page as it is on the last... WOW! You have left me in suspense and teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown!" - Sizzling Hot BooksReleased from more than one hundred years of revenge, the Angel of Death is no longer a tool for the Grand Council of the Chosen. He is finally free to return to a semblance of a life with Father Paul Notus. Haunted by nightmares of his past misdeeds and failings the Angel wants nothing more than to be left alone. It is across the Atlantic, in a foreign country, that he joins Notus, taking up the mantle once more as a protector in a land where those who would see him dead have flourished. Corbie Vale has not forgotten what the Angel has done. His own burning need to see the Angel humiliated and Destroyed sets into motion a carefully seeded plan despite warnings of greater retribution from the God of Death himself.Now in Corbie's territory, the Angel's sword becomes the lure to a trap, one that changes the Angel by giving him what he never dreamed of - mortality."Karen Dales brings fresh blood to the vampire genre." - Michelle Rowen, National Best Selling AuthorA fresh and intriguing new look at the vampire mythos." - Violette Malan, Author of The Novels of Dhulyn and Parno"For readers who adore textured layers in their literary tapestries, rich in colorful emotions, Karen Dales is one writer of vampire fiction they'll want to read." - Nancy Kilpatrick, Author and Editor of Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead