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Long ago, an ancient race stole humans from Earth. Enslaved for centuries, they rose up, took their captors' technology, and transcended what they had been. Now they are coming home — and to them, humanity is an infestation to be cleansed. The people below call them angels and demons. Five ordinary people are about to be pulled into the war that's been building for fifteen thousand years.
A demon lord driven by guilt. A bartender on the edge of breaking. A surgeon who doesn't believe in miracles. A spy with secrets buried deep. A student about to discover he isn't entirely human.
Dugan
Kagami
David
Charlotte
Theo
The angels are not supernatural. They are human beings — fifteen thousand years evolved — who built an interstellar empire and then came back. The demons are a hybrid species, engineered from human and alien biology eleven and a half millennia ago. Every miracle has a mechanism. Every legend has an origin. And behind every god, there is a person who made a choice.
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