The Spawn's Blood: Chains of Darkness 2

By Eve Hathaway

From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Witching Call, Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, Ralph's Gift, Children of Time, Chains of Darkness, Tropical Storms and Friend Zone...

Unholy Alliances
LINES IN THE SAND

Angels, demons, and creatures that are made of both.

Melinda and Gabe discover what Caleb really is--a force that will upset the balance of good and evil that has existed for millenia, a creature that cannot be killed by either side and can only be subsumed by the one who's blood runs in his veins. There's just one problem: Daniel is in hell, being tortured for all eternity.

Ariel and Azgaroth attempt to use Melinda to stop Caleb, but things take a turn for the worse as they realize it's not that simple. Their attempt to find a way to stop him will take them to the ends of the earth...and beyond.

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That was an angel’s life. Sometimes, like now, faced with darkness in all directions and the enormity of eternity, he waxed philosophical—was it really a life, if he couldn’t die?

Back to business. He closed his eyes and let his senses expand, to see if he could detect the ethereal glow of demons and their SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES. There was nothing, as he expected. No glow in his conscious, no activity he could detect.

In the distance, he could hear the roar of car engines coming his way, getting louder and sliding into a high whine as they strained up the steep incline. He ignored it, for now—he’d left his blinkers on, so he wasn’t too worried about them running him over the edge of the cliff. But just to be sure, he sent his mind towards the sound, and was surprised by how fast they were moving.

As he probed a bit more, he suddenly realized that it wasn’t just a car moving up the hill. They were street racing, and they were heading right... for...

Him.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandra Ross
• Release date: Jun 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301553938

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The Spawn's Blood

By Eve Hathaway

Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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Chapter One

GET BACK! Melinda shrieked automatically, scrabbling in the burnt sand as she tried to push Gabe away from them.

Then she noticed the aura of the dark-skinned one, the ethereal wings that shimmered and lit up the space between them as he unfurled them all the way. The other man in the identical gray suit, pale and curiously bloodless in the light of the moon and the angel's aura, projected a similar aura -- except his was demonic.

Even in her shaken state, she was cognizant enough to realize that angels and demons were not supposed to be amicably walking next to each other. Curiosity overcame her suspicions long enough to accept the angel's hand. He helped her to her feet while the demon pulled Gabe up. Gabe erupted in a spasm of coughing brought on by the smoke. It was not until the angel touched his chest that he was able to stop.

Gabe gasped a grateful Thank you, and perfunctory introductions were made all around.

The angel's name was Ariel. The demon's name, when pronounced, sounded like a cross between a lion's roar and a volcanic eruption, replete with the bone-shaking reverberations of both, and he told Melinda and Gabe to just call him Azgaroth.

So you're the ones following us, Gabe said weakly, nodding at the blue car.

The gray-suited pair shrugged.

If you wish to call it that, said the angel. We were merely trying to find the creature you have been calling 'Caleb', and we knew that it would be after you.

So you've been using us as bait, Melinda said.

Please, said the demon. We didn't have to interrupt him when he was about to incinerate you.

Actually, said the angel, we did. A creature like that--

What exactly is he? Melinda asked. I thought he was an angel, but he's afraid of iron like a demon is.

The angel coughed, frowning. Even though he was wearing sunglasses, he somehow managed to convey his disapproval at her interruption. Melinda and Gabe were following the angel-demon pair through the cold blue-lit desert, away from the glassy crater where, just ten minutes ago, they would have been cremated alive. Melinda was taken aback for a moment by the eerie realization that she and Gabe were the only ones whose steps were crunching over the rough desert.

It's a long story, the angel said, but he was addressing the demon.

We owe it to them, the demon said. "If we're going to get them to come with us, they at least ought to know what they were getting into.

The angel sighed. Very well then. Shall I?

The demon nodded. Go ahead.

The angel went ahead. Eighteen years ago, our intelligence wing received a wire from one of our human agents--

You work with humans? Melinda asked.

Technically speaking, most of our agents are nephilim, half angel and half human, explained the angel. He gave her a stern look over the tops of his opaque sunglasses, his brilliant white teeth flashing against his cinnamon skin in a grimace. Though in this case, he was a mad priest who made a pact with a demon and somehow got away with his soul intact, though not his sanity.

You have to remember, the demon added, "both sides had reached a... shall we call it a 'cease-fire agreement'? For the last few-thousand years, anyway. In any event, the terms of the