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Viking Adult
March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
464 pages
ISBN: 0670021474
EAN: 9780670021475
Hardcover
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A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our
time- between a hidden society and heaven's darkest
creatures "There were giants in the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bore children to them." Genesis
6:5 Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father
entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual
Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her
discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist
Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint
Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that
stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between
the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful
descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim. For the
secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the
once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert
the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of
angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and
their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been
destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the
Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the
Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of
Bulgaria. Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters,
and wondrously conceived, "Angelology" blends biblical lore,
the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of "Paradise
Lost" into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a
battle that will determine the fate of the world.
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