Sunday Spotlight is a feature we’re running in 2016. Each week, we will spotlight a release we’re excited about. We’ll be posting excerpts and being total fangirls. You’ve been warned. 🙂
Today’s spotlight is for a book we’ve all been dying for. Raphael and Elena are one of my favorite romance couples. Archangel’s Heart follows them as they’re called before the mysterious Luminata. After so many amazing books it shouldn’t surprise me that Singh just keeps getting better, but I was totally blown away by this book.
Archangel’s Heart by Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter
Also in this Series: Angels’ Blood, Archangel’s Kiss, Archangel’s Consort, Archangel’s Storm, Archangel’s Legion, Archangel’s Legion, Archangel’s Shadows, Archangel’s Shadows, Archangel’s Heart
Genres: Romance, Paranormal
Release Date :November 1, 2016
Publisher: Berkley
When a mysterious and ancient order of angels known as the Luminata calls the entire Cadre together to discuss the fate of Lijuan’s abandoned territory, Elena accompanies Raphael on his journey. When she arrives, Elena quickly senses all is not as it seems. For an order that claims to seek enlightenment, there are too many secrets echoing within the compound’s stone walls. The deeper Elena goes, the more darkness she finds. But nothing could prepare her or Raphael for the brutal truths hidden within—truths that will change everything Elena thinks she knows about who she is.
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Excerpt
Excerpt from ARCHANGEL’S HEART by Nalini Singh – releases November 1, 2016
Raphael’s response was silent, his wing brushing hers as he . . .
“Raphael!” The damn archangel had dusted her.
Glittering, sparkly stuff stuck to her, delicious beyond compare when she parted her mouth and it licked onto her tongue. Her thighs clenched. “This is not funny!” She glared at him even as arousal flooded her system, but he was laughing too hard to care.
Her heart, it just stopped.
Even now, the Archangel of New York rarely laughed and never like this. Until she could see the youth he must’ve once been, with eyes of a wild, astonishing blue that asked a woman to laugh with him. She’d never before seen him as truly young. How could she? He had so much power that it pulsed in his every touch, burned in his skin.
Hauling him close to her with her hands fisted in the cream linen of his shirt, she took a kiss, took him. He sank into her, his wings sweeping up to wrap around her until all she could sense was Raphael, all she could taste was him. And angel dust. The special blend he’d created just for her.
He pushed one hand into her hair, fisting it as he wrapped his other arm around her waist and backed her up against a wall. Something fell with a dull thud. Maybe the vivid painting of wildflowers that had just been put up, all the art having been taken down during the repainting.
Elena loved that simple piece Honor had found in a thrift shop, but right now, it could’ve been a priceless artwork by the Hummingbird and she wouldn’t have cared. She was far too happy to be pressed up against the hard warmth of her archangel tip to toe after spending the previous night on watch. No time for shenanigans with Dmitri away and Illium off-shift, Aodhan assigned to patrol the sea border, and Raphael dealing with the overall security situation.
She’d flown a proper defense grid, both to stay in practice and because none of them could afford to be blasé with the Cascade an unpredictable foe that could unleash itself at any moment, smashing the world back into chaos and, possibly, war.
Today, however, the others were on‑shift and she could kiss her lover. He burned hot, Raphael, but he was a crashing sea in her mind, a tumultuous, passionate storm that swept her up and thundered through her veins.
We can talk to Dmitri later, she sent to Raphael, sliding her hands up the ridges and valleys of his chest. Let’s go upstairs to our suite.
“A‑hem.”
She tried to ignore that pointed cough that held a biting amusement.
Raphael’s lips smiled against hers. I think my second has other ideas.
Posted by arrangement with Berkley, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin
Random House Company. Copyright © Nalini Singh, 2016.
Guild Hunter Series
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About the Author
Nalini Singh is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling, Guild Hunter, and Rock Kiss series. She lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing.
If you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts and free short stories on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book in the Guild Hunter series. The Rock Kiss books are all stand alone and can be read in any order.
I’m always excited about a new Guild Hunter book, but I’m actually a book behind still. I plan on getting to Archangel’s Enigma within the next couple weeks then I can read the new one. I’m also excited about Heartless by Marissa Meyer. I love Alice in Wonderland retellings and I liked Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles.
This does look good. I’m looking forward to reading the newest Mary Balogh book.
Of current/new releases, I’m looking forward to reading Archangel’s Heart, Someone to Love (Mary Balogh,) Wild at Whiskey Creek (Julie Anne Long) and Night School (Lee Child.) Thanks for the post and giveaway.