Gracebound
He has killed seventy-three people for feeling what he felt when he touched her.
Vess steals celestial artifacts for a living. Eight years, six continents, more than forty relics lifted from vaults and museums, all in pursuit of one question nobody will answer: what really killed her mother?
Then a blade in a Portland collector's vault blazes to life in her hand, and an angel appears on the rain-soaked lawn to take it back.
Cassiel has been one of Heaven's Watchers for two thousand years. His orders on attunement, the forbidden resonance that binds a human soul to an angel's, have never changed: identify, record, eliminate. He has watched the bonded burn. He knows what comes after the bond. The hunger. And the records say the only thing that feeds it is a life.
So when he grabs a thief's wrist and feels his own soul answer, he should report her.
Instead, he tells her to run.
