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Riley Parra
Series · 5 books · 2011-2013

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Riley Parra Season One

2011

Demons Are Real. Riley Parra Plans to Give Them Hell. No Man's Land isn't the kind of place you go after dark, even if you have a badge. But Detective Riley Parra was born there, and she refuses to surrender it to the drug dealers, killers and criminals who have made it there home. The case of a body stuffed into a drainage pipe leads her to discover that there is far more at stake than she ever imagined. Reeling from the knowledge that angels and demons are at war in her city, Riley finds herself thrust into the role of champion for Heaven. Determined to stop the demons and be more than just a pawn for the angels, Riley does the only thing she knows how to she fights.
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#2

Riley Parra Season Two

2011

Following Riley’s actions during her trial, the battle between Heaven and Hell has been reignited. Riley barely has time to recover before she’s thrown into the middle of a serial killer investigation. Dubbed the Angel Maker, the killer strikes seemingly at random and uses his victim’s blood to paint angel wings around the body. While Riley tries to track down the killer, she also has to try and identify her counterpart, the champion chosen to represent the side of evil. In the course of her investigation, Riley is forced to confront everything she once believed, from her own sanity to secrets being kept by her closest friends. With the help of her seraphim partner, Caitlin Priest, and her human partner, Gillian Hunt, Riley rejoins the battle between angels and demons with only one to keep herself and her friends alive.
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Riley Parra Season Three

2012

Third in the Riley Parra series
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Riley Parra Season Four

2012

The war is at a detente, but the battles rage on… With the war on hold until Marchosias names a new champion, a group of acoyltes for the side of Good arrive in the city to bolster Riley’s advantage through the power of prayer. But a lack of hostilities doesn’t mean there’s peace. A new demonic player soon begins making his name among the Five Families, making a power play that would consolidate every demon in the city under his command. Riley chooses the devil she knows over an unknown threat, but bringing down the new arrival may cost her more than she ever thought possible. Faced with powerful and unexpected enemies, her loved ones threatened by danger both supernatural and mundane, Riley makes a monumental decision concerning her status as champion and discovers that peace just may be more destructive than all-out war.
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Riley Parra Season Five

2013

Riley Parra’s Days Are Numbered. After a bleak turn of events, Riley Parra made the ultimate sacrifice to make things right. She succeeded in changing the timeline, but at the cost of her own life. To make matters worse, her doomed doppelganger’s use of the Ladder to turn back time has disastrous consequences. The released energy causes a earthquake in No Man’s Land, destroying homes and throwing thousands of lives into chaos. With her own death now predestined, Riley has to work to restore balance in the devastation with the knowledge that she only has a set number of days remaining. Faced with a true deadline and unwilling to let Aissa face down one of the most devious champions Marchosias has ever chosen, Riley is determined to finish the job she started before time runs out. If she has to die, Riley is determine she won’t go down without a fight.

Author

Geonn Cannon
Geonn Cannon
Author · 48 books
Geonn Cannon is a male author who grew up in Oklahoma, thousands of miles from the nearest coastline, who found his calling in stories about women who live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. In 2010, Geonn became the first male author to win the prestigious Golden Crown Literary Society Award for his novel "Gemini." In 2015, he won it again for "Dogs of War." He has written two official tie-in novels for Stargate SG-1, and his Riley Parra novels have been turned into an Emmy-nominated webseries by Tello Films. His first name is pronounced just like "John."
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