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Bestselling author CLAIRE DELACROIX always loved stories, both telling them and hearing them. She sold her first romance novel in 1992 and has been happily writing romances ever since. The Beauty, part of Claire's bestselling 'Bride Quest' series, was her first title to land on the New York Times Extended List. Claire makes her home in Canada with her family, a number of incomplete knitting projects, and a lot of overgrown houseplants. She loves to travel, cook, ride her bike, and read. Claire also writes romances as Claire Cross and as Deborah Cooke.

Having sacrificed his wings in a bid save humanity, fallen angel Armand has a bold plan to assassinate Presidential candidate Maximilian Blackstone. When things go awry and his partner Baruch is gravely injured, Armand fears that he will fail in his task and forever lose the chance to rejoin the angels in Heaven.

Theodora is a wraith, a woman who officially doesn't exist. She lives in the shadows, taking risks to earn the bounty placed on dangerous assassinations—bounty that buys the chance at a new life for those she loves. Captured when her latest hit goes horribly wrong, Theodora finds herself the prisoner of a strong, arrogant stranger.

Soon enough, these two solitary souls find their missions—and their hearts—entwined.  But in their desperate attempt to save the world, will they be able to save each other?

Publishers Weekly

This threadbare dystopian sequel to 2008's Fallen and 2009's Guardian never approaches the heights attained by Delacroix's better-known historical romances (The Snow-White Bride, etc.). Armand and Baruch are a pair of fallen angels determined to assassinate an evil politician and thus inspire beneficent angelic intervention in human affairs. Unknown to them, the mercenary and astoundingly hypersexual assassin Theodora is planning a hit on the Oracle--Delilah from Guardian--at the same event. Both marks escape, Baruch falls into the hands of the Institute (affiliated, naturally, with the Society and the Republic), and Armand and Theodora are left to figure out how to accomplish their goals and make a clean getaway. Delacroix is no world-builder, slapping together half-baked prognostications with tired paranormal tropes. The feeble speculative elements will annoy SF fans, the superficial use of religious themes will annoy believers, and there's more romance and character development in your average obituary. (Sept.)