The Book of Azrael (Gods & Monsters, #1)

by Amber V. Nicole

“It explains so much. Their power. Who Kaden is. Why they can hide from me. Dianna, they are older than even me! Centuries older.”

“That makes you a queen—a Queen of Yejedin!

She was gone, and I’d felt like a part of me was, too. I had known her for mere months, but in that short time, I had grown deeply attached to her.

“Their power far outmeasures any Otherworld creature. Even my father feared the Kings of Yejedin.”

I’d resurrected her without a second thought. My own father would not bring back my mother, the one person he had loved with every atom of his being. Yet I’d brought back a smart-mouthed, ill-tempered, caring woman. I was as selfish and weak as they claimed, because I hadn’t brought her back for the world, or even for her. I brought her back because I didn’t think I could exist without her.

‘Resurrection has a cost.’ What will ours be?” “I do not know.”

“She is, and cannot die by normal means. You resurrected nothing.”

“But if they open, that means Liam will die.” “So it is written; so it shall be.”

“The prophecy remains. One falls, one rises, and the end begins.

One carved from darkness, one carved from light.

“I am always wrong, or off by a few seconds. I was not fast enough to save my father. Instead, he died saving me.” His voice cracked, and I flinched at the sound. For the first time since I’d met him, he seemed unsure and raw. He waved a hand toward me. “I was not fast enough to save you. So, what am I doing, Dianna, besides fucking everything up?”

“I can’t do this without you.”