When her lover, the archangel Raphael, receives an invitation to a ball from the archangel Lijuan, Elena, who is still recovering from her transformation into an angel, must accompany him to Beijing, where a nightmare awaits them.

Vampire Dmitri, an archangel's right hand man, investigates the murder of a young vampire, which leads him to Honor, a dangerous woman who has recently survived a brutal attack by a rogue vampire, in whom he awakens violent emotions.

Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force. Vampires are dying impossibly of disease. Guild hunter Elena Deveraux and the Archangel Raphael must discover the source of the wave of death before it engulfs their city and their people, leaving New York a ruin and Raphael's Tower under siege by enemy archangels. Yet even as they fight desperately to save the city, an even darker force is stirring, its chill eyes...

"Naasir is the most feral of the powerful group of vampires and angels known as the Seven, his loyalty pledged to the Archangel Raphael. When rumors surface of a plot to murder the former Archangel of Persia, now lost in the Sleep of the Ancients, Naasir is dispatched to find him. For only he possesses the tracking skills required--those more common to predatory animals than to man. Enlisted to accompany Naasir, Andromeda, a young angelic scholar...

"Once a broken girl known as Sorrow, Holly Chang now prowls the shadowy gray underground of the city for the angels. But it's not her winged allies who make her a wanted woman--it's the unknown power coursing through her veins. Brutalized by an insane archangel, she was left with the bloodlust of a vampire, the ability to mesmerize her prey, and a poisonous bite" --

The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphaels power, Elena and her archangel are irrevocably changed. . .far beyond the prophecy of a cursed Ancient. At the same time, violent and eerie events around the world threaten to wipe out entire populations. And in the Archangel Lijuans former territory, an unnatural fog...

"Illium and Aodhan. Aodhan and Illium. For centuries they ve been inseparable: the best of friends, closer than brothers, companions of the heart. But that was before before darkness befell Aodhan and shattered him, body, mind, and soul. Now, at long last, Aodhan is healing, but his new-found strength and independence may come at a devastating cost his relationship with Illium. As they serve side by side in China, a territory yet marked by the evil...