Gideon's Angel (39 page)

I turned to meet her, struggling to glimpse her face in the darkening chamber. And slowly, she came into my view. I saw that there were tears streaming down her face. Tears that I had not seen since the day I had wounded her, abandoning her to d’Artagnan and fate. But she was looking at me, and she was seeing me.
Remembering
me. She rushed to my arms and I swallowed her up. I pushed my lips to her ear.

“Can you forgive me? For everything?”

She hugged me tightly. “I remember everything, or nearly everything... But I can forgive you for all. If you can forgive me my foolhardy adventuring.”

I lifted her away and cupped her face in my hands. “Maggie, you’re as brave as any man I have ever known. And I will not let you from my sight again.”

“But what will happen to us now? Where shall we go?”

I smiled, feeling freer than I had since I was a boy.

“Maggie, my love, we can go anywhere!”

About the Author

Clifford Beal
, originally from Providence, Rhode Island, worked for 20 years as an international journalist and is the former editor-in-chief of
Jane’s Defence Weekly
in London. He is the author of
Quelch’s Gold
(Praeger Books 2007), the true story of a little-known but remarkable early 18th century Anglo-American pirate.

“What’s the first thing you think of when I say ‘angel’?” asked Mallory.

Alice shrugged. “I don’t know... guns?”

Alice isn’t having the best of days - late for work, missed her bus, and now she’s getting rained on - but it’s about to get worse.

The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalating and innocent civilians are getting caught in the cross-fire. If the balance is to be restored, the angels must act - or risk the Fallen taking control. Forever. That’s where Alice comes in. Hunted by the Fallen and guided by Mallory - a disgraced angel with a drinking problem he doesn’t want to fix - Alice will learn the truth about her own history... and why the angels want to send her to hell.

What do the Fallen want from her? How does Mallory know so much about her past? What is it the angels are hiding - and can she trust either side?

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