Evan Reynallt has a past no mortal could ever understand. Reborn as a human, the fallen angel searches for the answers to a prophecy that will allow him to return home. With his human twin, Will, by his side, Evan finds himself caught up in something far more sinister.<br><br>Four hundred years after their vampiric turning, Evan stumbles into the one man he's been looking for his entire human life. Protecting the mortal should have been easy, but Evan didn't count on falling in love.<br><br>Morgan Adamson swore off all relationships two years ago. A modern-day American transplant living in London, he is perfectly content to be single. Then an image appears in his bathroom mirror, derailing all such notions of bachelorhood. But the man Morgan finds harbors secrets that may very well cost him his life.

The Legacy

Now his arms ached with a fierceness he had never known, and he prayed once more for death to be delivered quickly. The pain of being shackled and left to hang was more than he could continue to bear. His wrists bled from the rusting metal of the manacles as they dug into his flesh. His entire body weight was centered on them as his legs had given out many hours before. His throat was dry and scratchy, but he knew it would be too much to hope for another drink from the ladle of dirty water that had been brought to him nearly six hours ago.


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