Archangel's Legion
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Authors: Nalini Singh
Tags: #Fantasy, #General, #Paranormal, #Fiction
“PARANORMAL ROMANCE DOESN’T GET BETTER THAN THIS.”
—Love Vampires
PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF NALINI SINGH
Archangel’s Storm
“If you have never read Nalini Singh, if you have wondered what a great romance hero should be like, go get book one of the Guild Hunter series and read them all.”
—
Vampire Book Club
“
Archangel’s Storm
gives us a pair of beautifully rich characters perfect in their flaws and imperfect in their strengths who lead us through a dark dance of pleasure, pain, and heady hope.”—
Supernatural Snark
Angels’ Flight
“A great intro to Singh’s series, if you haven’t read her before, and a delicious addition if you have.”
—HeroesandHeartbreakers.com
“Nalini Singh spins a captivating story while presenting vibrant relationships that catch the heart and the imagination. Her characters
matter
. . . A must-read for anyone familiar with the series.”—
Errant Dreams Reviews
continued . . .
Archangel’s Blade
“Stuns with intensity . . . Left me raw and aching at the end in the best way possible.”—
Romance Junkies
“Mesmerizing . . . Fascinating world-building.”
—
Bitten by Books
Archangel’s Consort
“Powerful, raw, intense, dark—and so intimate.”
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Smexy Books
“Steamy and beautiful . . . makes me want to read everything Nalini Singh has ever written.”—
Fresh Fiction
Archangel’s Kiss
“Stunning, original, beautiful, intriguing, and mesmerizing.”
—
Errant Dreams Reviews
“I’m so intrigued by this world, so captivated by Raphael and Elena, and Raphael’s Seven, that I simply cannot wait until the next Angel book.”—
Dear Author
Angels’ Blood
“Completely awe-inspiring.”—
Fallen Angel Reviews
“World-building that blew my socks off.”
—Meljean Brook,
New York Times
bestselling author
“A fabulous addition to the paranormal world.”
—
Fresh Fiction
Berkley titles by Nalini Singh
Psy-Changeling Series
SLAVE
TO
SENSATION
VISIONS
OF
HEAT
CARESSED
BY
ICE
MINE
TO
POSSESS
HOSTAGE
TO
PLEASURE
BRANDED
BY
FIRE
BLAZE
OF
MEMORY
BONDS
OF
JUSTICE
PLAY
OF
PASSION
KISS
OF
SNOW
TANGLE
OF
NEED
HEART
OF
OBSIDIAN
Guild Hunter Series
ANGELS
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BLOOD
ARCHANGEL
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S
KISS
ARCHANGEL
’
S
CONSORT
ARCHANGEL
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S
BLADE
ARCHANGEL
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S
STORM
ARCHANGEL
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S
LEGION
Anthologies
AN
ENCHANTED
SEASON
(with Maggie Shayne, Erin McCarthy, and Jean Johnson)
THE
MAGICAL
CHRISTMAS
CAT
(with Lora Leigh, Erin McCarthy, and Linda Winstead Jones)
MUST
LOVE
HELLHOUNDS
(with Charlaine Harris, Ilona Andrews, and Meljean Brook)
BURNING
UP
(with Angela Knight, Virginia Kantra, and Meljean Brook)
ANGELS
OF
DARKNESS
(with Ilona Andrews, Meljean Brook, and Sharon Shinn)
ANGELS
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FLIGHT
WILD
INVITATION
Specials
ANGELS
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PAWN
ANGELS
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DANCE
TEXTURE
OF
INTIMACY
DECLARATION
OF
COURTSHIP
Archangel’s Legion
Nalini Singh
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ARCHANGEL’S LEGION
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Copyright © 2013 by Nalini Singh.
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eBook ISBN: 978-1-101-60222-5
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Jove mass-market edition / November 2013
Cover art by Tony Mauro.
Cover design by George Long.
Cover handlettering by Ron Zinn.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
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Contents
1
E
lena watched the ducks peck at each other in the pond in
Central Park and thought about the last time she’d been here. She’d sat on this very bench, musing on the fact that even the ducks couldn’t be nonviolent as her mind fought frantically to find a way out of the mess in which she’d found herself—a mess that had seen her tracking a mad archangel for another immortal as lethal.
Shimmering white-gold over her vision as she lifted her eyes to the sky, an echo of that fateful day. “Hello, Archangel.”
Raphael folded away his wings, his eyes on the ducks. “Why do you find them so fascinating?”
“I don’t. I just like this spot.” Her own wings uncomfortably squashed against the seat built for humans and vampires, she rose to her feet. “Though I think you need to sponsor a new bench over there.” She pointed to a beautiful spot across the way; it’d be shaded by the delicate green leaves of a flowering cherry tree in summer, the soft pink blooms in spring. Right now, with winter’s kiss in the air, the tree was all bone, stark against the evergreens.
“It will be done,” Raphael said with a cool arrogance that made her want to drag him back to bed. “You realize you’re capable of sponsoring many such benches?”
Elena blinked as she always did when she remembered she was rolling in it. Not in comparison to older immortals, of course, and way below Raphael’s league, but her personal fortune was more than respectable when it came to a fledgling immortal. Earned in the hunt that had broken her back, made her bleed until her throat filled with the iron dark fluid, and brought Raphael into her life, the money was currently amassing ridiculous amounts of interest in her Guild account.