Angelopolis

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She rose into the currents of icy air... " A " New York Times" bestseller & global sensation " Angelology" unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth & biblical lore on our present-day world & plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind's greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. With " Angelopolis " the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger & passion unbound. A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture imprison & eliminate her kind. But when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues casting him into a spiral of doubt & confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the society's most-wanted list for more than a century. The ensuing chase drives Verlaine & his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. Petersburg & deep into the provinces of Siberia & the Black Sea coast where the truth of Evangeline's origins--as well as forces that could restore or annihilate them all--lie in wait. Conceived against an astonishing fresh tableau of history & science " Angelopolis" plumbs Russia's imperial past modern genetics & ancient depictions of that most potent angelic appearance--the Annunciation of Gabriel--in a high-octane tale of abduction treasure seeking & divine warfare as the fate of humanity once again hangs in the balance."