**Nalini Singh returns to the world of the Guild Hunters for the most
highly anticipated novel of the beloved series--a love story so epic
it's been half a millennia in the making...
**
Illium and Aodhan. Aodhan and Illium. For centuries they've been
inseparable: the best of friends, closer than brothers, companions of
the heart. But that was before--before darkness befell Aodhan and
shattered him, body, mind, and soul. Now, at long last, Aodhan is
healing, but his new-found strength and independence may come at a
devastating cost--his relationship with Illium.
As they serve side by side in China, a territory yet marked by the evil
of its former archangel, the secret it holds nightmarish beyond
imagining, things come to an explosive decision point. Illium and Aodhan
must either walk away from the relationship that has defined them--or
step forward into a future that promises a bond infinitely precious in
the life of an immortal...but that demands a terrifying vulnerability
from two badly bruised hearts.