Friday Memes: Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh

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This week Nalini Singh's Archangel's Legion is at the top of my reading stack. This is the sixth in her Guild Hunter series of urban fantasy/paranormal fiction. Here is the description from Amazon:

Nalini Singh, the New York Times bestselling “alpha author of paranormal romance” (Booklist) returns to an immortal world of violent passion and lethal power…on the brink of a deadly archangelic war.

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 trained on New York…and on Raphael. Rivers of crimson and nightmares given flesh, the world will never again be the same…

Beginning:

Elena watched the ducks peck at each other in the pond in Central Park and thought about the last time she'd been here.

Friday 56:

"Either you've forgotten your prior engagement," Raphael said as she rapidly re-braided her hair, "or you're attempting to avoid it."