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ABOUT THE SERIES
Series: Kingdom Come
Author: Cecelia Earl
Number of books: 3
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
ABOUT When Ash Rains Down
Book 1
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Angels are real.So are demons.
Shady Creek gets a whole lot scarier after Julia learns she's part angel, especially since the only person she can trust is an angel who's as infuriating as he is attractive.
Julia received a necklace containing the songs of the angels from her dad when she was four. When she was eleven, he abandoned her family and the necklace went silent. At seventeen, Julia's doing everything she can to maintain security for her family, but now her necklace seems to have come to life once again. And that's not all that's changing.
When a robber attempts to steal from their diner, the necklace blazes and burns her chest. Pain in her back is nearly unbearable as the thief transforms before her eyes... into something demonic.
Demon after demon threaten Julia's home, family, and friends, and she realizes there may have been something more behind her dad's disappearance. And now there may be something--or someone--dangerous after her.
Julia has to accept that she is not quite human. Will her infuriating but attractive Guardian Angel be able to prepare her for the battle to come?
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ABOUT When Smoke Rains Down
Book 2
Release Date: May 27, 2017
In the aftermath of an explosion and Homecoming battle, Julia tries to form some semblance of a routine: work, study, and visit her brother who remains hospitalized. Unable to confide in anyone about her double life of being both human and angel, and fearful she'll bring more death and destruction to those she loves, she pulls away from her family and best friend.
When demons once again start to show up at every turn, seemingly bringing about her brother's deepening depression, she demands her sword from Nicholas. Ever the stern Guardian Angel, he forbids her from using it. Isolated, she takes protecting her brother into her own hands. But when demons show they have evils hidden within their weapons in addition to their ability to siphon souls from the living, Julia's not sure she knows the best way to handle saving him any longer. Especially when ash-colored lines begin to appear on humans, lines of demonic poison that travel through their veins toward their hearts and alter their moods.
Thrust into a dark world of conspiring demons, Julia is in more danger than she ever imagined possible. To stop evil from spreading and overtaking those she loves, she'll have to seek out the one person she mistrusts most--especially when a line appears on her own arm, and her apathy toward doing much of anything, including saving anyone, grows.
Enter a complex world where humans, demons, and angels collide, all battling to rule the Earth.
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ABOUT When Fire Rains Down
Book 3
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Hell is nothing like Julia imagined and beyond everything she feared.
The little town of Shady Creek is under attack by Lucifer and his demons. To save the people she loves, human-angel Hybrid Julia must rescue their kidnapped Guardian Angels, even when it means defying her father.
Trouble is, he knows only too much about Hell's perils. When a demon sucks Julia into a cosmic vacuum, the experience leaves an indelible blight she dares not mention for fear of losing her place on the angelic rescue team.
As a growing demon army surrounds Shady Creek, Julia's feelings for her own Guardian become all too real and dangerous. But the cosmic imbalance fueled by Hybrid Angels, Rogue Guardians and Warriors is already depleting the strength of the rescue team. And there's no room for distraction when the mission is to get into Hell—and out again.
For the sake of the mission, Julia must face the truth of the Hybrids' existence. Because nobody will be safe unless she can trust the gift of free will—for others and for herself—in this end-of-the-world finale to The Legend of Shady Creek Trilogy.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
She's a first grade teacher in a Catholic school by day, a mom always, and a writer in her sleep, but that's okay because being an author is a dream come true. She writes angel fantasy books for young and youngish adults. If you feel young, she writes for you--whether or not you feel particularly angelic.
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EXCERPT: When Smoke Rains Down (Book Two)
GIVEAWAY
Nicholas
is doing pull-ups from a low-hanging tree branch and doesn't acknowledge my arrival,
so I follow suit. I squat and leap up to grab a branch. I'm getting stronger.
He used to have to hoist me up to reach. I've also doubled the amount I can do
before taking a break to do lunges and squats.
"Sprints,"
he calls out when I've finished all the sets of arm and leg workouts.
I
race back and forth between two of the tallest tree trunks while he times me.
It's apparent why I've been eating so much and obvious how much strength I've
gained. Yet the stony expression on his face remains. This workout will make me
ache for days.
When
finally I'm dripping with sweat and fatigued, he walks over to me. "Time
for your lesson." Then he walks to the center of the clearing without
waiting for a response.
I
allow myself two seconds to close my eyes and take a deep breath.
"Now,
Angel."
I
push out my wings and push up off the ground and glide over to him, lowering
myself gently behind him. He turns and narrows his eyes. I put my wings away,
proud of myself even if he's not. Flying had been rocky at best the first few
times I'd tried it. I'd had no control and crashed into more than a few
branches—and one bird. Poor thing.
"Summon
the bow and arrow we worked with last time," he orders.
Bow,
I think. Nothing happens. I reach my hand out into the air. Bow. A spear
materializes in my closed fist. I growl. "It's all I ever get!"
"Calm
down. Try again."
I
let go of the spear and it disintegrates. "Bow," I yell. The spear is
back in my fist.
He
sighs. "The spear is the lowest of the weapons. You have to work your way
up."
"I
know this," I say through gritted teeth. "Spear, bow, rope,
chains…" I don't bother to mention my sword. I've stopped asking for it.
I
try to calm down. Spear, I think. I get the spear I've pictured. One
that's longer and narrower than the one I'd been conjuring up. I let it go and
take a deep breath through my nose. Bow. The same short, thick spear
materializes.
Nicholas
reaches into the air and pulls a bow and arrow from it with ease. He hands them
to me. "Show me how to set the arrow and aim for the target."
Nicholas
had explained the reason the demons had overrun the hospital was most likely
because of Noah, either because they're after him, or after something he has.
He wants me to be ready the next time I'm faced with a hoard of demons on my
own. He wants me to be able to get rid of demons from a distance by sending an
arrow across a space, and though I can't summon the bow and arrow, my aim is
pretty good.
"Bullseye,"
I say after striking the center of the target three times in a row.
"Pride
will get you nowhere," he says, retrieving the arrows and returning them
to me.
Rather
than aim the arrow at the target, I aim it at a knot in a tree and strike its
center.
"Julia,
focus," he shouts, his voice stern and reprimanding. I can't stand the annoyance
that flares to life in his eyes when I don't just do as he tells me. He's so
bossy and controlling. More than once, I've nearly rammed him alongside his
head with a metal object. After half an hour more, he relaxes. "Better.
Now…"
He
doesn't get a chance to finish his command, because Michael has entered the
clearing. Twice before he's come to oversee either my progress or Nicholas's
training technique. I'm not sure which. Nicholas is that much tenser when he's
around, like he's trying to prove himself or something.
And
sure enough, he straightens and his shoulders go rigid. I guess he's been
loosening up around me, because the difference in his personality is laughable.
His face is all hard angles and his hands move at lightning speed. He won't look
me in the eyes.
I
summon a spear and defend myself as Nicholas comes at me. We continue lunging
at one another and defending jabs until Michael leaves with a nod and a
"Good work."
Nicholas
gets up off the ground where he pinned me and brushes off his clothes.
"Wouldn't
it serve you better to cool it when he's here? Let me win and pin you or
something?"
He
looks up from buttoning his overshirt. "No."
"Well,
I mean if you want to look like this almighty trainer, then wouldn't it benefit
you to make it look like I'm able to fight well?"
He
strolls over to me where I'm still standing holding my weapon. "No. If you
want to overpower me, then you have to earn it. Do it authentically. I don't
play games to win. Or lose."
I
nod, chewing on my cheek, and then he adds, surprising me, "You are able
to fight well."
I'm
almost touched by the compliment, so touched that I lunge forward, kick
Nicholas's feet out from under him, and land on top of him. I push the long
metal rod across his throat and pin him to the ground.
"Thanks,"
I say.
He
looks at me and whips me around, pinning me with the edge of a blade to my
throat. "You made that too easy. Stay on the offensive and pay
attention."
He
lays the dagger down in the dirt and holds himself above me with his palms on the
ground, looking at me. His breath is on my face, and suddenly it's a gazillion
times hotter and harder to breathe. He's so beautiful to look at when he's not
scolding me and bossing me around. I realize how very much I needed to hear
that compliment come from him, how very much I wanted to make him proud of me.
He runs his tongue over his bottom lip. I take in a sharp breath. His eyes are
on mine a moment longer before he pushes up off the ground and jumps to his
feet.
"We're
done for today."
Once
again, he strides off, leaving me to show myself out.
"Sword,"
I demand of the air around me. A bow and arrow appear in my fists.
"Gah!" I shout at the trees.
I let
the weapons drop into the shimmering dirt and stomp off through the trees.
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