He is to stay on the island for a month and write reports for Extremely Upper Management, which warns him to be especially meticulous in his observations. When Extremely Upper Management sends for Linus, he learns that his next assignment is a mission to an island orphanage for especially dangerous kids. Linus clings to the notion that his job is about saving children from cruel or dangerous homes, but really he’s a cog in a government machine that treats magical children as second-class citizens. Linus Baker loves rules, which makes him perfectly suited for his job as a midlevel bureaucrat working for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, where he investigates orphanages for children who can do things like make objects float, who have tails or feathers, and even those who are young witches.

Though her prophecies indicate death, the end of the book hints at a more metaphorical interpretation than a literal one and introduces some major changes to look forward to in the next title.Ī tightly wound caseworker is pushed out of his comfort zone when he’s sent to observe a remote orphanage for magical children. Singh takes her remarkable Guild Hunter series ( Archangel's Viper, 2017, etc.) in a new direction, threatening Elena and Raphael’s relationship with changes harkened by an ancient sage who chooses to communicate with Elena in her head. Meanwhile, an odd voice in her head-that seems to be a powerful being communicating with her from some unknown place-is hinting that she’s going to die, sort of Raphael is developing powers that surprise even him odd geothermal phenomena are erupting around the world and an old nemesis is rising, though in ways no one is expecting.

Bad timing, since she’s on the hunt for a serial killer who’s attacked her brother-in-law, and the closer she gets to the killer’s identity, the more she realizes she’ll need all the hunting skills she possesses tracking him while her body is undependable and her other powers are vanishing is daunting.

Suddenly, however, Elena is regressing, and powers she’s come to rely on are receding. Elena-the first human to be made into an angel in memory and consort to a mighty archangel-is failing, and while she, her lover, and their friends race to heal her, they must also stop a serial killer and meet the growing threat from a powerful and mysterious enemy.Įlena has been turned into an angel by her true love: “Raphael had kissed her with ambrosia as she fell, her back broken and the rest of her wounded beyond repair, and now she soared in the sky.” No one knows how long the full 'journey from postmortal to immortal' will take, since any records from past angel-Mades have been lost.

Archangel's Prophecy by Nalini Singh