Ellie Monroe is a senior at a high school in the suburbs of
Detroit. The days leading up to her seventeen birthday are chaotic at best. She
suffers from terrifying, reoccurring nightmares that drugs and therapy do not
help. Her parents are constantly fighting when her father is at home. Only her
best friend Kate understands and lends a sympathetic ear. After school one day,
she spots a boy that she hasn’t seen before standing under a tree. He is cute
but looks too old for high school. Ellie gets the feeling as if she knows him
from somewhere but shakes it off. Then she notices him staring back at her. Ellie
blushes and heads to her mother’s car. The next morning, she gets a call from
Kate to turn on the morning news. Mr. Meyer, her economics teacher has been found
dead that morning behind a bar. His body has been severely mutilated and a long
hunting knife with a gut hook was left behind.
School is cancelled for the day and Kate comes over to
Ellie’s house. After a nap that ends in another nightmare for Ellie and a movie
marathon, the girls decide to meet up with some friends mat the ice cream shop.
Not wanting to talk about Mr. Meyer’s murder, Ellie tunes out her friends and
scans the people in the shop. She sees the boy from outside the school from the
day before. Noticing his appearance, Ellie once again gets the feeling that she
that she knows him from somewhere. He notices her staring and he looks back at
her. She turns her attention back to her friends. Ellie goes to throw away her
trash. When she turns around, the boy is right behind her. He asks her if she
remembers him. Disappointment is on his face when she answers only from the day
before. He introduces himself as Will. Her friend Landon comes over and tells
Will to stop talking to Ellie. She tells Will goodbye and Landon to chill out
as they walk away.
At dinner that night, Ellie’s father is home for once. Tuning
out the conversation, it isn’t long before Ellie realizes that her parents are
arguing over her nightmares and bring up Mr. Meyer’s death. Ellie gets up to
head to her room. She spends the evening watching movies. Her parents continue
to argue. At midnight, the happy birthday texts begin. She decides to spend her
first moments as a seventeen year old by sneaking out of the house and sitting
on the front porch. Soon, she decides to go for a walk around the block. She
hasn’t gone too far when she hears a low rumble in front of her. There isn’t a
sign of a car and thoughts of Mr. Meyer cause her to think that maybe she
should have stayed home. Suddenly, Will appears in front of her and she becomes
nervous. Only four houses from home, she turns to go but Will stops her. Ellie
sees nothing but comments on the smell. Will tells her that she isn’t able to
see into the Grim yet. He is talking to someone but Ellie still doesn’t see
anything.
Realizing that she knows nothing about him, Ellie heads
home. Will tells her to wait. She turns to see Will afraid. He asks her to come
to him but Ellie shouts “no!” “Don’t scream. You’ll make him attack.”
Panicking, Will grabs Ellie before she can leave/ will is too strong and Ellie can’t
escape. He comments that he is ready to quit playing games. He presses his palm
to her forehead. There is a blinding white light and her heads feels as if it
will explode. A cruel wind batters her but she is supported by Will. The light
and wind disappear and Ellie thinks she sees wings. Blinking, there is nothing
there. Tired but energized, the haze around her disappears. With clear eyes,
she sees Will marvels that she can see through the darkness of the night. Then
she sees a large, dog-like monster. Not afraid but calm, Ellie is flooded by
strange memories and thoughts that she knows are her own. Will is suddenly
familiar and Ellie realizes that she needs to fight but has no weapons. Will
kicks the beast back and Ellie holds out her arms to will two khopesh swords
out of thin air into her hands. The weapons feel familiar. Beginning to spar
with the beast, it grabs the hood of her sweatshirt and yanks her to the
ground. Ellie smashes her elbow into its face and it drops her. Will has it by
the throat and tells Ellie “now!” before she can think; she has shoved a sword
through the beast’s throat, turning it to ash. Ellie passes out.
The next morning,
Ellie wakes up exhausted. She is annoyed to have dreamed of Will and her
nightmare seemed all too real. She is still in her clothes from the day before
except now her sweatshirt is missing. Her mom makes her pancakes for her
birthday and promises to take her to buy a car that afternoon. Her father has
already left for the day. Ellie asks her mom if she heard anything last night.
She apologizes for all of the arguing but Ellie says that she means like a
growling dog. Her mother gives Ellie an odd look and asks if she had another
nightmare. No, I wasn’t sleeping and her mom tells her to shut her windows.
Ellie thinks that she must have been dreaming and that she is now officially
crazy.
Later at school, Ellie washes her hands in the bathroom and
looks in the mirror. She sees thin black lines spreading from her hair, across
her cheek and around her eye. Frantic, she can’t wipe them off. Backing away
from the mirror, Ellie closes her eyes. When she opens them, the lines are
gone. She composes herself and leaves. In the hallway, she runs into Will. Scaring
her, Ellie asks him why he is at school if he doesn’t go there. Then she
notices the tattoo covering his arm. It reminds her of the lines on her face
just a moment ago. His are beautiful and she can’t stop staring. Will asks her
if she is alright. I’m fine, she answers. Will tells her that he needs to talk
with her about that night before. She tries to leave but he is adamant that her
life depends on it.
Who is Will? Why has he been watching Ellie? Are Ellie’s
dreams just nightmares or is she remembering something? What really happened
the night of her seventeenth birthday? Does Mr. Meyer’s murder have something
to do with Ellie? And just what is happening to Ellie?
Wings of the Wicked –
book two
Now that Ellie has
discovered the truth about her existence, her world has been turned upside
down. More human than in her previous lives, Ellie struggles to maintain a
normal teenage life with her duties as the Preliator. Even though both will and
Ellie have admitted their feelings for one another, will is keeping his
distance and tries to keep their relationship on a business like level. A
relationship between the two of them could be seen as improper and even
considered dangerous. And Ellie's heart is breaking.
Caden comes to Ellie's
school one day to warn her that Bastian has recovered the sarcophagus of Enshi.
Caden likes things status quo and doesn't wish for the end of the world. Ellie
realizes that Bastian just doesn't want her soul destroyed but for the Second
War or the Apocalypse. He is also there to warn her that Bastian is hunting
her. He is sending his worse and their order s are to capture Ellie alive.
Bastian is looking for the key that will break the Enochian or angelic spell
keeping whatever is inside imprisoned.
In a preemptive move,
two more angelic reapers, Marcus and Ava, join up with them. Ellie knows Marcus
from the past but Ava is a completely new face to her and neither girl gets
along with the other. Ellie is a little jealous of Ava because she suspects
that there may have been something between her and Will in the past. When Ava demands that Ellie fight her weapon less
to prove her abilities, Ellie lays her hands on Ava's wrists and calls all of
her power, Angelfire, forth. Burning her, Ava says that is enough. Why after
all of this time is Ellie in possession of a new power? Could it have something
to do with the fact it took her forty years to reincarnate? Can Ellie balance
both parts of her life; human and Preliator?
Is Ava really demonic instead of angelic as Ellie would like? Has
something gone on between her and Will in the past? Why is she still having
problems recalling her past? Is Ellie the key to unlock the angelic spell on
the sarcophagus? Can she evade Bastion's minions? Why is Caden passing
Information along to her and can he be trusted? Can Will get past the
restrictions placed on him in regards to his relationship with Ellie or are
they doomed to be apart?
Shadows in the Silence– book
three
After the cliffhanger in Wings of the Wicked, it all comes down to the final battle. Ellie must find the relics needed to destroy the Enshi and save herself. Who will survive and who will die in the thrilling conclusion of the Angelfire trilogy.
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