Prologue

"When you were four years old, you died."

"...How?"

"Angels, Alianna. They're angels."

When Alianna dies a tragic death at age four, a woman in black appears and offers her desperate parents her life back. They agree, under the circumstances that at age eighteen, she is to marry the woman's son, Cade Merceaux, and enter the world they live in. Angels. Demons. A constant fight, a never ending comparison of power. A war between the iridescent living, and the punished and forgotten ones. Light and dark.

"This is why you're here. This is why you are alive. You will see...You will see..."