Linda Poitevin
Author of the Grigori Legacy series from Ace/Roc Books
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Sins of the Lost launches in just over two weeks now (October 15), and Lisa's hosting a launch party!
If you’re in Ottawa (or within reasonable driving distance), here are the details:
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Place: The Lieutenant’s Pump , 310 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON
We’ll have snacks, a draw for some great swag, and a reading (noise levels permitting)—so bring a friend, come say hello, meet some great people, and join her in celebrating the release of book 3 in the Grigori Legacy series!
Sins
of the Lost
(copyright 2013 Linda Poitevin, all rights
reserved)
Prologue
“You want me to what?”
The Archangel Mika’el stared at his
Creator. For more than a week he had awaited her summons. He’d been prepared to
endure her wrath, her bitterness, her disappointment . . . but
this?
Nothing could have prepared him for this.
The One gazed back at him with equanimity.
“I want you to convince Seth to take back his powers.”
Her words made no more sense the second
time around.
“You can’t be serious,” he said, because
it wouldn’t do to tell his Creator, “You’re insane.”
Steel formed in the silver depths of her
eyes. He held himself rigid against the desire to look away. He’d earned his
place as Heaven’s greatest warrior through strength and counsel, not by folding
at the first sign of the One’s displeasure. Straightening his shoulders, he met
her glare with his own.
“Two weeks ago, your son’s instability damn
near cost us the mortal realm,” he said. “We have no reason to think he has
changed. So why would you give him his powers back?”
The One sighed. “I’m not giving them back.”
“You just said—”
“I said I want you to convince him to take
them back.”
Mika’el’s irritation stilled. As her words
sank in, he let his mind sift through to their underlying meaning. To what she
wasn’t saying. Understanding glimmered.
“The earthquake,” he said. “In Vancouver.”
The One stared out the window, her gaze
unfocused. “When Seth chose the mortal woman over his destiny, the energy he
discarded put the entire physical world in flux. I’ve been dealing with the
consequences ever since. Earthquakes, storms, tsunamis. They’ve been manageable
so far, but if we don’t contain what he released soon, it will destroy the
planet. Perhaps the entire universe.”
Mika’el’s blood turned cold. He’d seen the
consequences of Seth giving up his power in the first place: buildings reduced
to rubble, an already earthquake-prone city made more unstable. If the One was
right, they’d removed one threat posed by her son only to have it replaced by
this, an entirely new problem. And if her proposed solution was to have Seth
take back his powers, it could only be because—
He whirled to face her. “The energy. You
can’t control it.”
“I can’t so much as touch it.” Bitterness
laced the Creator’s voice. “Every time I reach for it, I make it more unstable.
Its very nature makes it reject my presence.”
As much as he’d expected the confirmation,
it still stunned him. Still made his universe drop from under his feet. “You’re
certain?”
You’re
certain that you—the All-powerful, the Creator, Mother of everything—cannot
control this? Cannot contain an energy that is—should be—so much less than your
own?
Raw honesty gazed back at him, piercing
deeper than any steel might have done. “The energy is not mine to hold, Mika’el.
It was created by my union with Lucifer. It belongs only to the product of that
union. I wish it could be otherwise, but—yes, I’m certain.”
“If he does this, if he takes back his
powers, how strong will he be?”
If
something goes wrong, if he chooses not to return to Heaven, can you stop him?
“I don’t know.”
Her answer, he knew, encompassed both
questions, spoken and unspoken.
He pivoted on his heel and stalked the
width of the room in one direction, then the other. “There must be another way.”
“We tried your way.”
The words were not a recrimination, only a
statement of fact, but they stopped him in his tracks. She was right. He’d
created this mess. He’d let himself be ruled again by the arrogance that had
separated him from her side all those years before, and in that arrogance, had
loosed an unknown, unquantifiable force upon the world when they could least
afford it.
When war between Heaven and Hell already
threatened humanity with Armageddon.
He cleared his throat. “One—”
The tiny, silver-robed figure by the
window held up a hand. “What’s done is done. There is no point in belaboring
the issue. I just need you to convince Seth. I’ll hold things together as best
I can, but I don’t know how much time I can give you.”
“He will never listen to me.”
“No. But he might listen to the woman.”
The Naphil. Of course. After choosing her
over his own destiny, Seth would almost certainly listen to her. Still Mika’el
hesitated. He wanted to ask what would happen afterward, if Seth did take back
his power. Wanted to know . . . and already did. The measures he’d
taken—the risks—none of it had changed her mind.
“You know we’re not ready to lose you,” he
said gruffly.
Infinite sadness gazed back at him from
silver eyes. “Loss isn’t something you’re ever ready for, my Archangel. It’s
something you survive.”
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When homicide detective
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