Angelology Book

"Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim." "For the secrets the Rockefeller letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful creatures who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity. Almost since human civilization began, these uncommonly tall, fair figures have moved undetected behind the seats of power throughout the world and have been tracked in stealth by generations of angel scholars - the angelologists - who have devoted their lives to stopping them. This mission is steeped in a reality shadowed by the divine supernatural. It haunts every corridor of Evangeline's Hudson River abbey, pierces the innocent world of an art historian's research, and casts architectural treasures in Paris and New York in an astonishing new light. All the while, deep in a Bulgarian mountain cavern, the Nephilim's angelic forefathers illuminate the stalactite bars of their prison with a radiance of an altogether different sort - a perpetual glow that is a deadly as it is irresistible." "As Evangeline learns how these realms connect to the correspondence she's found, she comes into knowledge of the role she herself is destined to play in this ancient clash reignited - and of how her Parisian grandmother, one of the greatangelologists, intends to prevent catastrophic defeat on the eve of the new millennium." Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.