Description

Long before recorded history, two hundred angels called the Watchers were sent to earth to observe mortals. They fell in love instead. Their punishment was eternity as vampires, stripped of wings and souls, hunted by the very seraphim who were once their brothers. Raze is one of the Fallen, a blunt instrument of the vampire nation, and after centuries of the hunt he has stopped expecting anything from his endless life. Then a mutilated body turns up on his doorstep, carved with his name.

The trail leads to Chicago, to a fanatic’s cult staging a revolt in the shadows, and to a quiet jazz club where Raze meets Kim, a sharp, self-possessed mortal carrying her own fresh grief. What was meant to be one night refuses to stay that way. But the enemies Raze made at Wrigley Field know his face now, and they have decided the fastest way to break an immortal is through the one mortal he cannot walk away from.

This novella is where the Renegade Angels series begins. Day wrote it as a free introduction to the world of her novel A Touch of Crimson, and it does that job with real economy: the full mythology of Watchers, Sentinels, lycans and minions arrives inside a fast, high-heat love story rather than around it. Readers who know Day only from her later Crossfire phenomenon will find the same signature here, physical intensity used to expose emotional need. The question the story turns on is an old one asked well: what does a man with nothing to lose do the moment that stops being true?

A complete story in one sitting, and a deliberate doorway into a series.

For adult readers of vampire and angel romance. Explicit content, 18 and over only.