The war between the Angels of Judgment and the Vampiric Succae – a race of honour-bound demons – was over. Everyone was safe … for a while. ANGEL. SOLDIER. ASSASSIN. DIPLOMAT. FOOL? Azshael is an outcast lost in remorse and shunned for falling in love with the enemy. Unexpectedly tasked with investigating the death of a Succae elite on Angelic soil, it quickly becomes personal when he discovers her murder bears similarities to that of his dead lover. Seeking answers, he joins forces with the Succae Serrate Lytta, an ancient war spirit bound in flesh, and the potent pair unearth a conspiracy which could destroy the long-standing truce and reignite the war between good and evil. As a day of reckoning looms, Azshael will need all his wits to survive. But surviving is the one thing he’s always been good at. He’s not the ‘dead angel walking’ his enemies think he is. They picked him to fail, but they chose the wrong Angel…

The war between the Angels of Judgment and the Vampiric Succae – a race of honour-bound demons – ended in a fragile peace accord but the forces of disorder and misrule still lurk in the shadows. ANGEL. SOLDIER. ASSASSIN. DIPLOMAT. TRUTH SEEKER. Following an unprecedented day of mysterious protest by the Bonded – the former gods and heroes of judged worlds, a young Angel from a sect of conscientious objectors lies dead, slain by a rare Succae weapon and a piece of the Archangel Prince Anael's ceremonial regalia is missing, presumed stolen. Outcast Angel Azshael soon finds himself embroiled in a search for answers that takes him from the towers of the White Citadel to the roosts of the Low-Nin in the subterranean warrens on the vampire moon of Scarpe and down to the abandoned former Succae capital on the dying planet Cerule. As evidence mounts that the two crimes are connected and that the missing ceremonial staff, the White Rood, could have devastating powers, Azshael and the Succae Serrate Lytta find themselves caught up in the machinations of a secretive sect of Angelic Watchers, an Angel of Death and the deadly plans of a mad god intent on seizing power and ruling both races. Can Azsh and Lytta find answers in time or is this the start of a new dark era on both sides of the Tether? Find out in this incredible second book in the Ambassador Azshael Series.