Dark Radiance

Lily has known since childhood that some bedtime stories end in nightmares that never leave you. Now seventeen, she has moved through one foster home after another before arriving in Idelwood, a bleak little town in Colorado. Its residents seem to know far more about her history than she does, and Lily refuses to let that go unexplained. The town hides its own secrets, and Lily soon finds herself caught in a growing conflict between God's Elite Angels and the Fallen. The Elites are focused on her, because she is the first being born from both sides, and the council has decided she must be eliminated.

As Lily uncovers the truth about her parents' pasts, the town's famous ghost, Claire Halloway, begins appearing in visions and taunting her. Lily is also learning to control abilities that are only now emerging, and a green-eyed stranger affects her with every charged touch. With the council closing in, she must master the power she carries or become the Night Monster that the town's creatures already fear. Her darkening soul and her parents' buried history push her toward a choice about who she will become, and whether she will be a monster in the shadows or a pawn on the council's strings.