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He thought she was hiding from a murderer. She was hiding from the apocalypse.
Ray Sutherland spent thirty years at NASA chasing life beyond Earth. Then he retires to run Sutherland Properties and meets Cassandra "Cassie" Angel-a quiet typist with no records, no past, and eyes that see straight through him.
Cassie is Sahaquiel, an angel from the sixth heaven, hiding on Earth from Samael, the dark angel who murdered her family for the power she carries. Ray is human, brilliant, and completely unprepared for the truth. But when their forbidden attraction becomes a night of passion, Ray unknowingly inherits Cassie's celestial powers-and becomes her eternal mate. Samael arrives through an alien artifact recovered from Jupiter's moon, unleashing darkness, cold, and death across the planet. To stop him, Ray must accept that he is more than mortal: the illegitimate son of the archangel Michael, a man of two worlds, and the only being who can wield the Dagger of Light. But victory may cost him Cassie, his best friend's humanity, and the fragile peace between Heaven and Earth.
In a war where angels are not saviors but refugees, and humans are not weaklings but God's beloved, one scientist must choose: faith or fear, love or sacrifice, Earth or eternity.