Description
"Intriguing from page one...White asks hard questions about desire, damnation, love and sacrifice in a beautiful, poetic way that will keep you utterly spellbound."-Anya Bast
In a dark and seedy underground of burned-out rock stars and angels-turned-vampires, a revolutionary neuroscientist and a fallen angel must pit medicine against mythology in an attempt to erase their tortured pasts...
Olivia, vampire and fallen angel of desire, is hopeless...and damned. Since the fall from Eden, she has hungered for love, but fed only on desire. Dominic O'Shaughnessy is a neuroscientist plagued by impossible visions. When his research and her despair collide at L'OtelMathillide-a subterranean hell of beauty, demons, and dreams-rationalist and angel unite in a clash of desire and damnation that threatens to destroy them both.
About the Author
Skyler White crafts challenging fiction for a changing world. Populated with angels and devils, rock stars, scientists, and revolutionaries, her dark stories explore the secret places where myth and modernity collide. She is the author of and Falling, Fly and In Dreams Begin.
Reviews
"White's debut is a trippy urban fantasy, an esoteric battle between myth and science told in floods of evocative prose." -Publishers Weekly
"A deeply romantic story...An absolutely wonderful debut!"-Julie Kenner
Book Information
ISBN 9780425232347
Author Skyler White
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Penguin USA
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Series A Harrowing Novel
Weight(grams) 299g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 22mm
In a dark and seedy underground of burned-out rock stars and angels-turned-vampires, a revolutionary neuroscientist and a fallen angel must pit medicine against mythology in an attempt to erase their tortured pasts...
Olivia, vampire and fallen angel of desire, is hopeless...and damned. Since the fall from Eden, she has hungered for love, but fed only on desire. Dominic O'Shaughnessy is a neuroscientist plagued by impossible visions. When his research and her despair collide at L'OtelMathillide-a subterranean hell of beauty, demons, and dreams-rationalist and angel unite in a clash of desire and damnation that threatens to destroy them both.
About the Author
Skyler White crafts challenging fiction for a changing world. Populated with angels and devils, rock stars, scientists, and revolutionaries, her dark stories explore the secret places where myth and modernity collide. She is the author of and Falling, Fly and In Dreams Begin.
Reviews
"White's debut is a trippy urban fantasy, an esoteric battle between myth and science told in floods of evocative prose." -Publishers Weekly
"A deeply romantic story...An absolutely wonderful debut!"-Julie Kenner
Book Information
ISBN 9780425232347
Author Skyler White
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Penguin USA
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Series A Harrowing Novel
Weight(grams) 299g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 22mm
Details
Series: |
A Harrowing Novel |
Imprint: |
Penguin USA |
