Can a demon be redeemed?Rational Lucia believes in what she can see and touch, preferring to leave the curses and fortune telling to her old-world relatives. Meeting Delia, a desperate half-human, half-demon child, who needs someone to keep her safe challenges Lucia’s logic. Armaros spent his eternal life mired in guilt. Choosing to live according to his desires and whims, he forced his sister to … forced his sister to fall from grace, damning them both. When she vanished, abandoning him and all they’d built together, he pursues. The last thing the Fallen expected to discover was the impossible existence of her child and the fragile human intent on her protection.
Thrust together, Armaros and Lucia must flee the forces of Heaven and Hell. Despite the insurmountable odds stacking against them, can they accept that fate put their paths on a collision course? Or are they doomed to fail, losing not only Delia, but also the only other person in the universe who understands them?
The Darkest Fall was previously published as Matched with a Demon
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When Lucia finds Dalia, she knows she has to take care of her. What she didn’t expect was for things to get so very complicated very quickly. Even as she debates with herself her Aunt Zia calls and tells her to stop and go home. Lucia has other ideas and takes the child home. Now this child isn’t human, Lucia’s not sure exactly what she is though.
When Armaros finds Dalia, he is expecting to find his sister and quite frankly all hell breaks loose as he tries to erase Lucia’s memory and take Dalia. Lucia is a fighter and she doesn’t give up easily, but this encounter isn’t my favorite, the second one is.
When Dalia has had enough of Armaros’ questions, she throws a tantrum of sorts, her powers destroying his apartment and then she poofs out of there. Then when Lucia arrives looking for her, Dalia brings Lucia to her.
This is only the beginning, and Armaros his more than a little intrigued by the the human who is so determined to care for his niece.
He fights this attraction, after all he is a fallen angel and nothing good could come of this attraction.
Plenty of twists and turns as the plot thickens, warrior angels, Lucifer and of course Lucia’s family all contribute to tale of good and evil.
I laughed, sniffled, held my breath a few times and fanned myself as Lucia and Armaros steam up the pages all while working on keeping Dalia safe.
I really hope there are more books with these three, it was thoroughly engaging.
I’m a romance reader and this book is that and so much more. At the heart of the story is Lucia and Armaros who begin as adversaries but throughout their newly found duties as adopted parents fall very much in love with each other and their daughter. It was a long dangerous journey but I got my HEA.
This story is about love, all different kinds of love. An orphaned child picks two new parents for herself. A young woman finds an unconventionally beautiful demon child and devotes herself to love and raise her. A fallen angel searches for his missing sister whom he loves and in her place finds a niece in the care of a formidable and challenging human woman. A traditional catholic Italian parents love their only daughter who is a life long student of ancient languages and histories, only to see her drop everything for a child who goes missing. A colorful aunt who has the sight and reads tarot cards, warning her beloved niece to walk away from what isn’t really a human child and will bring other worldly troubles to her door. So many different kinds of love than grows and changes over the course of the story.
I appreciated the rich descriptions of the locations and the histories that are woven throughout the story. The characters are far from perfect, making them just that much more interesting. Armaros is handsome in his human form but absolutely terrifying in his true form. Lucia is smart and driven and real and honest. They have lots of forces working against them known and unknown and they spent a lot of time hiding, on the run and poofing from one place to another or chasing the bad guys. Sometimes bad guys aren’t always bad guys, which was fun!
While this book is paranormal it is also quite smart and never feels fanciful. It’s as though this is a telling of a true history. It kept me engaged and guessing the whole way. I am happy to have read it and hope there will be more to come.