A stunning follow-up to the best-seller Angelology Part historical novel fantasy love story thriller and mystery Its a must-read Bookliststarred review A New York Times bestseller and global sensation Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankinds greatest enemy the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim With Angelopolis the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion to capture imprison and eliminate her kind But when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the societys most-wanted list for more than a century The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the Black Sea coast where the truth of Evangelines originsas well as forces that could restore or annihilate them alllie in wait Conceived against an astonishing fresh tableau of history and science Angelopolis plumbs Russias imperial past modern genetics and ancient depictions of that most potent angelic appearancethe Annunciation of Gabrielin a high-octane tale of abduction treasure seeking and divine warfare as the fate of humanity once again hangs in the balance.
