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Fractured Souls by Ava Marie Salinger
Fallen Messengers, Book 1
Humans are dying in San Francisco. The most shunned angel on Earth may very well hold the key as to why…
When Cassius Black moves to San Francisco for a fresh start, the angel’s hopes of staying below the radar of the supernatural organizations that oversee the otherworldly and magic users in the city are dashed when he stumbles across a dead body in the sewers. His grim discovery soon puts him in the sight of the Argonaut Agency and Francis Strickland, the bureau director who knows his darkest secrets.
Morgan King and his team of Argonaut agents have been hunting for the culprits behind a series of gruesome killings that have rocked the city all summer. Killings that bear sinister hallmarks of sacrificial rituals where the victims’ souls have been ripped from their bodies. When Fate brings Cassius in Morgan’s path, he realizes the angel everyone likes to call The Devil may very well be the only person who can help them track down the murderers.
Morgan and Cassius soon find themselves chasing down a sect of black magic sorcerers and cross paths with a mysterious warlock whose actions evoke disturbing echoes of an incident from Cassius’s past. As rumors of a potential plot to tear the Nether reach their ears, Cassius and Morgan must work together to defeat their common enemy and save the city from destruction, all while fighting their growing attraction for one another.
Fractured Souls is the first novel in the MM urban fantasy romance series Fallen Messengers. If you like action-packed paranormal adventures with romance and snark, then grab this pulse-pounding book today and enter a world you won’t want to leave!
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“Asshole!” Cassius snarled at the empty living room, his dick throbbing.
He marched into the kitchen, made himself another coffee, and stared at it mutinously before walking over to the liquor cabinet and pouring a generous shot of whiskey into it.
It took a while for his lower half to quieten down again. Cursing his neighbor helped. He’d just finished his drink and was pondering his grim findings last night in the sewers when the demon cat ran out of the bedroom and came over to where he paced the floor by the couch. It leapt onto his shoulder, its claws sinking into his T-shirt, and stared unblinkingly at the front door of the apartment. Cassius stiffened as a warning growl rumbled from the creature’s belly.
“What is it?”
The cat’s growl intensified.
Cassius’s gaze darted to the bedroom door. Damn it!
He’d left his gun and dagger on the nightstand. He frowned, took a shallow breath, and sent out a faint pulse of energy.
It took but a moment for him to detect the heavily armed group gathered outside his apartment. There was another group on the rooftop. They smashed through the front door and the terrace doors and stormed inside seconds later, the trigger-mounted laser beams on their guns lighting up his body in a macabre dance of red dots.
“Cassius Black? This is the Argonaut Agency! Get down on the ground and put your hands behind your head!” someone yelled.
The demon cat hissed, its eyes flashing red and an aura of crimson energy flaring from its body as it arched its back threateningly.
One of the agents in the hallway fired.
Cassius swore, snatched the cat from his shoulder with lightning speed, and twisted around, his wings sprouting defensively from his back. Heat flared on one of his right pinions as the bullet punctured it and passed right through.
Shock reverberated through Cassius. He stared at the crumpled projectile where it had lodged itself in the wall of his living room, his heart thundering where he held the trembling demon cat to his chest. Hot blood dripped onto the floor from his wound.
An ordinary bullet would never have pierced his flesh.
Anger surged through Cassius when he realized what was in the slug. He lowered his wings and glared at the agents surrounding him.
“Stark Steel and electrum?! Are you fucking kidding me? That shit is illegal!”
An agent standing by the door pushed her tactical goggles up on her head. She was a tall blonde with hazel eyes, a hard expression, and the faintest whiff of magic about her.
“I’m sorry about what just happened.” Her cold gaze shifted to the man who’d discharged his weapon. “I’m sure Agent Driscoll didn’t mean to accidentally fire on a suspect.”
Driscoll hunched his shoulders at her tone. Somehow, Cassius had the feeling he was in for a serious ass-whooping later.
“But you’ll understand when I say we can’t exactly use standard ammo on someone like you,” the woman added, her gaze flitting to Cassius’s feathers.
Cassius gritted his teeth and retracted his wings, conscious of the distrustful stares the other agents were directing at him.
Of all the angels and demons who had fallen to Earth when the Nether tore open five hundred years ago, he was the only one who had wings as black as night and as red as blood. That fact had contributed to him becoming the most feared and ostracized supernatural being to walk the planet since that fateful day, the grim colors a dark portent that both humans and otherwordly associated with back luck. Cassius scowled.
Still, it doesn’t give these assholes the right to barge into my home and shoot at me and my cat!
The demon cat had gone still in his arms, its instincts evidently telling it it needed to lie low for the time being.
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About the Author:
Ava Marie Salinger is the pen name of an Amazon bestselling urban fantasy author who has always wanted to write scorching hot M/M urban fantasy. In 2021, she launches FALLEN MESSENGERS, her first M/M urban fantasy romance series. She also writes contemporary M/M romance as A.M. Salinger. When she’s not dreaming up hotties to write about, you’ll find Ava creating kickass music playlists to write to, spying on the wildlife in her garden, drooling over gadgets, and eating Chinese.
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