Before the time of Sumerian civilizations, an ancient angel, made mortal by the elements of an epic storm, falls in love with a woman of pure heart and uncommon beauty.
Ten thousand years later, descended through generations of her kind, Grace Theriot awakens to her legacy. But when her companion and mentor vanishes in a remote jungle of the Uruguay River, she’s left with the impossible—
To unravel the mystery of emerging supernatural powers while safeguarding the true nature of her most precious secret.
John Cheramie had amassed a wealth few could imagine, but he accepts no acclaim. Success is not an obsession; it’s an escape, exhaustion his only refuge from memories of a beloved wife’s tragic death.
Soon, he’ll abandon his home and the life he once knew, never to return. That is until the enigmatic Grace Theriot drifts into his world—the only woman who might rescue him from an abyss that threatens to consume him.
How does she touch his heart this way, and why must she soon leave him?
Touched by the tears of her indomitable love, it becomes an Archangel who now awakens to the gifts of mortality.
Though scarcely after his first drawn breath, he rediscovers the familiar rage of ancient battles. But now, in this primitive world gone mad with war, he thunders upon the earth, finding her tortured body splayed upon scorched stones, precious life seeping from ghastly wounds.
But it is not ancient weapons that will wrest a woman from an angel’s reach. Rather, it is the seed of forbidden love that will destroy her—or if she lives—generations of immortals will walk the earth for eternity…
How many times had he played the phone’s recording — her desperate plea, her last whisper of love, and her frightened cry… as the second tower fell.
A painful reminder of how he’d failed her, the only woman who brought calm to his tortured soul. What would she think if she’d known the truth? That he could have saved her…
Or that he might still try.
