Format: Kindle, 480 pages
Release Date: February 17, 2022
Publisher: Amazon
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy
Angels sharpening their blades. A mortal world plagued by demons. And one young woman torn between them.
As an orphan in Midri, Sanaa wants only one thing: Freedom outside the walls of Vice District.
When she’s caught by the dreaded poachers and sold at auction, she’ll do anything to escape her fate.
Anything.
Rynk
has battled his way to the top of the angel hierarchy, but he longs for
his fated mate. Instead, the Council sends him to Midri to recover a
lost token of the Celestials—the sacred relic he lost as a child. Rynk
must seize this one chance for redemption if he ever hopes of finding
her—his Beloved.
In the demon-infested world of Midri, Rynk
stumbles across a young woman on death’s door. With a single touch,
three things become crystal clear to the blind warrior:
1. She is his Beloved.
2. She’s human.
3. She rejects their fated bond.
With
demons closing in, Sanaa and Rynk are running out of time. If they
don’t overcome the bruises of their pasts, thousands will die.
* Reluctant allies.
* A thrilling discovery.
* A daring plan.
Because
it’s not just their hearts at risk— Sanaa’s entire world will be
destroyed if the two can’t find a way to accomplish the impossible…
Before the angels burn Midri to ash.
Raye Wagner's Angels of Ashes and Ivory blends high fantasy and romance against a world on the verge of annihilation. There are elements of violence, enslavement, and murder, making this an extremely dark world. The story features two equally damaged characters: Sanaa, and Rynk. Sanaa grew up in the demon infested world known as Midri. She was abandoned as a baby. She grew up in the one honest orphanages in the entire V district. For the past six years, Amma drilled caution into those under her care for fear they would be caught by poachers, and sold into slavery.
Sanaa wears a pendant around her neck that nobody can see
but her. She believes it was put there by Celestials before dumping her
off at the orphanage. Because of her unique blue hair coloring, which is a
sign of being angel touched, there are those like Prince Ubel who
believes she holds the key to thwarting his mother Lilith's attempt at
taking Midri from him. But after making a really bad mistake, she's sold at auction to a flesh dealer named Hadeon Skin. Being a slave is bad, being slaved courtesan under Hadeon is a death sentence.
Rynk, who was orphaned, and raised in the Angel Institute, is a warrior angel who made one big mistake he's spent the last 17 years trying to remedy. Even after years of faithful service as a Power, Rynk has no information regarding his Beloved, despite repeated petitions to the Council of Dominions. He's at the point where he believes one of the first order angels in Celos is holding the information deliberately.Rynk is given a high priority mission to the world of Midri. Midri is where his uncle Vean fled to after becoming a fallen angel. The Thrones claim that the celestial perimeter surrounding Lilith's prison was sparked by a demon trying to escape.
It's up to Rynk and his partner Thane to investigate the level of corruption, and demon infestation. If the world seems to be lost to demons, the next step is for Midri to be annihilated. He also learns that the demons are searching for the celestial token the babe was wearing when she was kidnapped. If Lilith gets the pendant, she could escape her prison. A first order Demon like Lilith could destroy entire worlds before Terra managed to assemble an army to stop her. After finding that Sanaa was sold to a flesh seller, Rynk finds her stabbed and near death.
He also knows without a doubt in his mind that his heart has found his beloved. Of course, she ends up refusing it which causes issues between the two. More than a mortal marriage, a Beloved pair was stronger together. They enhanced each other’s powers, provided companionship, intimacy, love. The only way angels could procreate was with their matched Beloved. More than anything, Rynk wanted her. Together, they would become ‘one flesh, one heart, one mind.’
Part of the story goes to Vean, the man who kidnapped an infant child, and left her behind at Amma's orphanage. He's been on the run for a dozen years, trying to stay one step ahead of the Thrones and Powers trying to capture him. The necklace around Sanaa's neck is the one thing that he can offer to Lilith to prove his devotion. Because of his actions, he's lost his wings, became a Fallen, and is now stuck on Midri learning the hard way that demons have no emotions. No feelings. No loyalty. No love. Unless he finds the necklace, he'll be Lilith's slave to her whims.
With Sanaa's world at the end of its usefulness thanks to
Prince Ubel and Lilith, Rynk and Sanaa need to work out their
grievances soon, otherwise innocent humans will be left to die. There's an interesting twist in both Amma, the kindly headmistress of the orphanage, and Ahriman, who seems to want to help save Sanaa, as well as Thane. Whenever you have fated mates, it's rare to have one of them deny the connection, only to slowly learn that having him around makes her safe from her nightmares.
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