Ashes
of Eden
Fallen
Angel Book 1
by
J.L. Myers
Genre:
Paranormal Romance
The original sinner. The angel he covets. And one unbreakable law…
The
second Lucifer saw Gabriel in the flesh, his whole existence changed.
Her voice, her touch, the way she looks at him with complete
acceptance; Gabriel is his addiction and Lucifer is done for.
But
there’s a catch. Don’t fall in love.
Lucifer
isn’t free to want more than the immortal life he leads. His body
craves her and he hungers for a taste of her blushed lips, but love
between angels is a punishable sin…
A sin Lucifer is ready to risk his legacy for…
New
Adult/Paranormal Romance/Angel/Demon
Warning
- This book contains some language and sexual situations.
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BY.
J.L. MYERS
“You are sad. Why do you cry?”
Lucifer’s warm hand touched Gabriel’s cheek, sending a wave of heat
through her as she turned to face him. Instead of moving away as he had above,
he let his hand fall against her neck below her thick hair. His breath was
faster as he stared at her, speeding up as her own did. Sensation flooded her
like God’s rains one day soon would, and she struggled to speak past the knot
wedged in her throat. “I feel so…deeply. I weep for all that will die, for
being the one to beg Him to deliver
the world from sin.”
Lucifer stepped closer, his hand on her neck curling further around her
nape. “His machinations are his own. Nothing you ever say or did say has
changed His plan. You know we do not
have that power. We never have and we never will. What we want is not part of His plan.”
“Lucifer…” As Gabriel stared into the deep pools of his silvery eyes, she knew
there was so much he was holding back, that he was holding deep down inside.
His grip on her neck had tightened too, and his body had started to quiver. The
sharpness of his voice scared her, but it was also a clue. Despite the flutter
of fearful anticipation that swirled through her belly, she needed to know…
“What is it that you want?”
Lucifer’s gaze fell to her lips, and she gasped at the warmth that
suddenly swelled inside of her. He was beautiful, stunning in every way inside
and out. He could not possibly want what Michael had claimed, what Lucifer had
all but confessed to. Not after all this time. Not from her. But Gabriel was
lying to herself. The truth was as clear as the strengthening moon as he kept
staring, licking his lips as if starved.
Gabriel knew she should pull away or take a step back from him. She had
seen that look on Lucifer’s face before when she had not known the cause—the
wanting, the heated yearning. The time they had stared through that tranquil
pool to the Garden of Eden and witnessed the mortal love between a man and a woman.
Lucifer wanted her. He craved her. Michael had claimed as much. And now she saw
the proof in his eyes and the way they drank her in. In the way his breath
quickened as she bit her bottom lip, pumping his chest beneath his robe. In the
tensing of his sculpted arms and the way his free hand curled then uncurled
over and over.
Did she want him too?
Without thinking, without giving herself permission, Gabriel leaned
closer. Now she felt his warm breath across her face and tasted the masculine
scent of him on her tongue.
At her hitched breath, Lucifer hissed, gnashing his teeth together as if
trying to distract himself. As he went to pull away, a pang of unexpected loss
cut through her. “Gabriel, we should…leave.”
As Lucifer’s possessive grip on her neck relinquished, one rough finger
wiping her drying tears as he turned away, she could not stop the words.
“Lucifer, stay—”
A flare of light brightened the darkening sky, and Lucifer spun back,
reclaiming the back of her neck. The look in his eyes was so intense she could
almost imagine they were on fire. Lips a hair’s breadth away, she didn’t pull
back as he froze before her. He seemed to be waiting for her to move, to push
him away, to tell him to stop. But she didn’t. She couldn't speak. And more
than that? She didn’t want to. Instead, she tilted her head gently to one side,
letting her lips part with a shaky inhale.
Another flash of light streaked overhead, drowning out the pale stars.
Lucifer’s hand on her neck pulled her closer, and then there was no more
separation. Their bodies pressed into one another, and Lucifer’s hot lips
connected with Gabriel’s, taking the breath right out of her. Flames ignited
inside her body and her mouth parted in shock and need, scrambling her thoughts
and any understanding of right and wrong. Tasting his sweeping tongue in her
mouth, the entire world around them disappeared as if it had never even
existed.
Dawn
of Reckoning
Fallen
Angel Book 2
Darkly romantic. A dangerous new paranormal thriller for fans of all things supernatural.
Before
Earth there was Heaven, a place of immortality and subservience, a
place where angels existed to watch the world transform…until one
angel changed everything.
Gabriel
may have been the first of the archangels to feel love and
compassion, but teaching Lucifer to feel started the beginning of the
end. Angels aren’t free to love, to lust, to want. They are God’s
servants, his eyes and ears, his pure beings.
Or
at least they were.
After
falling for Gabriel with all her beauty and eternal hope, Lucifer
refuses to return to his subservient ways. He wants more than the
hand he was dealt with all its immortality and reverence. He wants to
be free.
But
freedom comes at a price…
Struck
from Heaven and the one he loves, Lucifer is banished to Earth to
live as a mortal…but even without his wings, he’ll never be fully
human. And he’ll never let go of his rage against the one who cast
him out. When Lucifer discovers the power of his angelic blood, God’s
precious humans in all their sins and freedom become the pawns in
Lucifer’s unwavering revenge.
A
new race is set to emerge. A race to reveal the ugliness of
humanity.
Through
it all, Gabriel refuses to lose faith in Lucifer and the man she
knows he truly is. Now her fellow archangels plan to use her against
him…but will she be Lucifer’s downfall or his savior?
A tale of unquenchable rage, deception, and eternal love.
A
paranormal angel, vampire novella.
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Fallen Angel 2: Dawn of Reckoning - Excerpt 2
Lucifer
stood in the streets of Babylon, watching as the disappearance of monsters
resulted in swarming terrified people. All around they ran and scampered,
tripping and colliding to escape the hungry fangs that sought to devour them.
As if on quickened time, the events rushed
forward. Bodies lay twitching in the streets, their necks pulsing out red
puddles.
The sight almost made Lucifer want to call back
the hungry monsters that he and the king had led down here. It had taken
moments to create more of what he had turned the king into. Yet it seemed their
hunger was insatiable. None of these empty shells that had once contained human
souls would come back to life. Lucifer had not infected them. He had not even
had the chance to. His monsters’ hunger came first, and that understanding made
one thing clear. Despite this new power he contained with his blood, he still
was not in control. The lives lost were not deserved, but they were not his to
refuse either.
When they finally reached the temple, the sounds
of frantic prayer were like whispers that blanketed the death at his back. The
changed soldiers’ numbers were not so great, but their hunger for blood had
caused havoc. Now he had the men he sought to ruin, men of worship, prayer, and
devotion. All huddled inside, begging to be heard, begging their maker to save
them.
“Fools.”
Like him, they would never be heard. And like
him, their delivery from sin was out of their reach. Lucifer would make sure of
that. For these mortals would not die today. No. They would live…as the monster
he had been condemned to become. As a being worthy of judgment before their
almighty God.
Love was Lucifer’s sin. Death and destruction
would be theirs.
Lucifer was ready to prove which was worse, and
which truly required condemnation.
Surrounded by the soldiers he had already
turned, he watched as Cyrus stalked up the steps to the temple. He made not a
single move to order the next attack, and none was needed as a deathly silence
fell over them all.
Fangs bared, King Cyrus’s eyes gleamed with
promise. “You have your orders. Follow them and your spot on my army is secure.
Fail me, and you become the prey.” Clutching the large pulls, he tugged the
double doors open.
The soldiers reacted at once, racing up the
steps and pouring inside the temple. Screams and shrieks split the silence,
stalling Lucifer from following the anarchy that awaited him.
And then he heard something, almost too quiet to
make out and yet distinct enough to stop him in his tracks. “Lucifer, please. Please. This is not who you are. This is not what
you want. Their deaths hurt you once. They affected you enough to challenge
God. You advocated for them. You tried to save them. Stop this, please. Be the
man I know you to be.”
Lucifer turned his head to the side, closing his
eyes at the barely audible voice that had drifted by him as if on the wind. He
knew it was Gabriel. There was no denying it. And so much
of what she had said was the truth. If he was being honest with himself, he
knew their deaths still affected him. Though not because their lives were being
taken. No. What really affected him was the fact that once they gasped their
last breath, if they were worthy, they would be enveloped into the infinite
light above, welcomed into the home that had been taken from him. He chuckled
without mirth at her last few words. Be
the man I know you to be. Because that was all he was anymore, a man, not
an angelic being. Not an archangel. Merely a man, yet one who would never be
granted the redemption he had strived so hard to achieve for a millennium.
The redemption he still secretly craved.
Shaking off the stirring of emotion that
threatened to make him reconsider, Lucifer strode onward. Even if he wanted to
put an end to this anarchy, which he did not, it would not stop. The only lives
that could be saved were the ones waiting for his infection—which, if he did
not act soon would fall victim to the hungry monsters that held the men up by
their throats inside. Women and a few extra men were huddled within the four
walls among shattered statues and upturned seating benches. But there was only
one exit, and it was blocked from all sides. None of them would ever make it
out alive…unless he did as planned.
Crossing the threshold, Lucifer turned away from
the cries and shrieks and paused. Hands on the open doors he hung his head. A
part of him wanted to relent, to end all of this before it could go too far.
The other part knew there was no point. Stopping all he had started would
change nothing. He would still be condemned and banished. He would still be alone.
And God’s humans would still be free.
Under his breath, his words killed any niggling
hesitation and reignited ire in his veins. “Why do you suddenly care? All these
years—you abandoned me too.”
And then he slammed the doors shut.
Jessica
L Myers' vivid imagination and quiet demeanor as a child led her to
the imaginary worlds of books. Even at a young age, her love for the
supernatural was prevalent, with her first loved books being R.L.
Stine’s Goosebumps series. Following that she took an interest in
other non-fantasy fiction, including Virginia C. Andrews series
Flowers in the Attic.
In
her teen years, Jessica spent many school hours writing poetry and
dark short stories and took up sketching some of the terrifying
things that came from the graphic night terrors she’d grown up
with.
As
an adult and after meeting the love of her life, Jessica got married
and started a small construction business with her husband. With the
birth of her son, Jessica suffered PPD and found escape in her books
and their fantasy landscapes. It was at this time that her need to
write flourished. In 2009 the decision was made and the first words
to her New Adult Paranormal Romance novel What Lies Inside were
written.
When
Jessica isn’t immersed in writing about extraordinary characters
with dangerous abilities and deadly obstacles to overcome, she likes
to spend time with her two kids and husband, curl up with a good
book, or watch anything and everything supernatural.
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