Something Deadly This Way Comes
(Madison Avery Series #3)
Author: Kim Harrison
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Synopsis: When Madison dided the night of her prom, she
knew her life would never be the same. Now she has a powerful amulet, a team of
rogue angels by her side, and the ability of flash forward into the future to
see the shape of destiny. And of course, now she’s finally with Josh-a perfect
boyfriend who doesn’t even mind that she’s dead.
But being dead has its
disadvantages, too. Madison feels caught between the light and the dark, and
between her real life and her timekeeper status. When Madison has the
opportunity to get her body back-to be alive again-she faces her most difficult
decision yet. If she claims it, she could return to being a normal girl-and
have a chance at a real relationship with Josh. But would having the one thing
she wants most in the world also mean giving up everything she’s worked so hard
for?
Sneak Peek
I’m Madison Avery, dark timekeeper
in charge of heaven’s hit squad . . .and fighting it all the way. Funny how
timekeeper never popped up on my “careers good for you” when I did the test at
school. The seraphs say I was born to the position, and when the choice was
take the job or die? Well . . . I took the job.
“Fate,” the seraphs would say. “Bad
choice” if you ask me. Even now I don’t believe in fate, and so I’m stuck
working with a confused dark reaper who is trying to understand, and a light
reaper twice fallen from heaven who thinks my ideas are a lost cause. Instead
of just following orders sent down from above, I want to do things to convince
people to change. My only hope is to locate my real body so I can give the amulet
back and forget the entire thing happened, because convincing heaven that I can
save lost souls is looking impossible. It’d be a lot easier if my own people
weren’t working against me. (Prologue)
More Sneak
Peek
“Barnabas,” I said sofly, feeling
alone though he sat right next to me. “You have a soul. How can you not?”
He was silent, watching as I played
with the glittery black stone safely encased in its wrapping of wire. I focused
on it, modulating the light bending around it until it looked like a little
silver cross with a black stone in the center.
“You are the best of us,” I said,
looking at my amulet. I was pleased with the result, though it still felt like
an oval, river-washed stone to my fingers. “Unflawed and beautiful. You have to
have a soul.”
“Angels weren’t made for the earth,”
he said. “Only those of the earth have souls.”
“Okay, but you abandoned heave for
earth,” I said, not believing that God would be so cruel. But then again, look
what he’d fated for me. “Maybe that means you really belonged here. That you’ve
had a soul all this time and you just didn’t know it. It’s not like angels all
look or act the same. If it’s not a soul that makes us different, then what it
is?”
In my hand, the cross melted into a
pair of black angel wings. Barnabas was silent as he looked at them, and then
he muttered, “I left heaven because I was forbidden to return, not because I
was gifted with a soul.” (Chapter 5, pgs. 66-67)
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