The Archangel Passage: Book 1

Samantha Bradshaw, a shy and bookish recent art grad, suddenly finds herself thrust into supernatural peril following a strange occurrence at a Halloween party where magic was used as a party-favor. Sariel is a banished angel who was inadvertently freed from his prison by a Jewish mystic beneath the Warsaw Ghetto on April 23, 1943. Although the mystic sought to conjure an angel to enlist its aid, he had no idea he would summon one of the Watchers, the Grigori, who once taught mankind the secrets of magic, took human wives, and populated the world with giants. Meanwhile, beneath the streets of modern-day Moscow, in the vast network of underground tunnels lost to time, the most powerful being on the planet, the Archangel Michael, watches Samantha from a Scrying pool with cold eyes that glimmer with eons of suppressed madness – and in her future, he sees his own end. Sariel knows that the only way to ensure Samantha’s safety is to procure the Durandal, the legendary sword of Roland, which, as the legend goes, was once owned by Hector of Troy. To find it, Sariel hires archaeologist David Weiseman, who discovers a journal that leads him to believe the sword was found centuries earlier and presented to Ivan the Terrible. Together with Samantha and David, Sariel heads to Moscow to find the sword, and though they know danger lurks around the bend of every dark corridor beneath the ancient city, even Sariel doesn’t expect Michael to be lying in wait for them.

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