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Title: Falling Angels
Author: Ami Blackwelder
Series: Angelfire Chronicles #2
Genre: Angel/ Romance Suspense
Publisher: Eloquent Enraptures Publishing
Release Date: June 1 2014
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Caption:
Enter a World Where Love Knows No Boundaries. A World
Where Boundaries are Manipulated. A World Where
Manipulation Might End Everything.

Summary:
After Ali Maney becomes Angelfire the stakes are raised and
Dameon would like nothing more than her death. While Ali grows closer to Kian, they also find many
differences that cause friction between them and after her best friends and brother are drawn into the
angel wars, Ali will never look back until the war is over.

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Ami Blackwelder is a Paranormal and SciFi author. Her stories
range from Tween & YA to Adult. Growing up in Florida, she
graduated UCF and in 1997 received her BA in English and
additional teaching credentials. Then she packed her bags and
travelled overseas to teach in Thailand, Nepal, Tibet, China and
Korea. Thailand is considered her second home now. She has
always loved writing and wrote poems and short stores since
childhood; however, her novels began when she was in Thailand.
Having won the Best Fiction Award from the University of Central Florida (Yes, The Blair Witch
Project University), her short fiction From Joy We Come, Unto Joy We Return was published in the
on campus literary magazine: Cypress Dome and remains to this day in University libraries around
the USA. Later, she achieved the semi-finals in a Laurel Hemingway contest and published a few
poems in the Thailands Expat magazine, and an article in the Thailands People newspaper.
Additionally, she has published poetry in the Koreas AIM magazine, the American Poetic Monthly
magazine and Twisted Dreams Magazine.

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Other Books in the Angelfire Chronicles

She Speaks to Angels Book 1
Dumah's Demons Book 1.5
Falling Angels Book 2
Angel Codes Coming




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Excerpt (Chapter One)
Crash
Kian! Catch me! My chalk-white wings spun crazy in the gust of wind as I plummeted toward
the soft grass in the park. Soft or not, I didnt want my nose slamming into the green. I already dyed
my hair a new color - blonde. I didnt need a new nose too.
Plus, I wore a pair of new black skinny jeans and I couldnt have grass stains all over my clothes. I
had to get used to wearing tube tops, since the wings ripped a few of my blouses on my first attempts
at sprouting them out of my back and flying. I also hated showing my belly.
Kians face grimaced in pain as he saw me heading straight for him. He rubbed his fingers through
his copper hair in quick thought before his glowing amber eyes caught mine, which were of silver-
violet hues. I still couldnt get over the fact that every time I grew into an angel, my eyes morphed
from their natural color of sea-blue into something spectacular.
Soon after my transformation, I asked why my eyes carried a silver tint. I thought only demons had
that color. Krysta snidely explained the reason well. You turned because of one of our own dying.
Death and darkness makes the color silver. Made sense, I guess. So now, my eyes would always be a
reminder of an Angelfire loss. Now, I had to get over the fact that in five seconds flat, I might be one
with the earth.
Leaping towards me, Kians celestial form expanded its wings and the force of my body pleasantly
met with his instead of the ground. Moments before I felt his regal arms embrace me, a soft bounce of
our chests told me he found me. Safe. Minimal damage. Other than a slight pinch in my stomach and
a few feathers bent on the right side, I felt fine.
The right side of his mouth curled up in a smile as his pink lips rubbed mine. His winged arms
braced my back as his hands and fingers caressed my neck. We floated upward toward the moon; two
souls bound as one. Warmth from his angel-esque form felt as if I had curled up next to a fireplace
with the one I loved.
Kissing, we forgot to care about anything else around us for a moment, because we had waited so
long to be physical with each other. Lost in his eyes, I never wanted to leave the safety of his chest and
the comforts of his wings.
However, life has a way of changing things.
Ali, he whispered, Its time for you to use your gift.
I flinched. The mere thought of fire scared me. How could I propel the dangerous blaze from my
fingers?
But?
No buts this time. This gift is your weapon. Youll need it someday, because I cant be with you
24-7, and we have Samuels life to look after now too.
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The sound of my brothers name caused my mind to return to the night when Dameon changed my
life forever: the night he murdered Nathaniel, the night Samuel saw the angel world for the first time,
the night I had been changed into an Angelfire.
Yes, my brother. He weighed heavily on me. After all, I drew him into this world and into this
danger. I have to do this for him.
Kian twirled me as if I were a feather in his hand. I became completely weightless. Are you ready?
I think I finally am.
My body dropped with his. Our wings went from undulation to retreat into our sides. Standing on
the wet grass, I was reminded that it had rained just hours earlier. Good thing too, because it made
sure everyone was indoors or had found shelter somewhere else while Kian and I used our powers.
Just focus, Ali. You can do it, Kian encouraged, his confident sunglow eyes on me.
A burning sensation rose underneath my palms. I could feel the heat as if standing over a stove, but
every time I tried to push, nothing came out of me. I squeezed my hands, my forehead wrinkled and
when I opened up, nothing.
What am I doing wrong?
You fear the power. Youre afraid of what it might do, where it might go. The gift feels your fear.
Then how do I get over it?
The secret is to embrace your power. Look at where you want the flame to go and focus.
I closed my eyes and threw my hands forward, squeezing and releasing as my thoughts churned,
but only my father came to mind.
I cant, I cried and threw my hands to my forehead. I fumbled backward, but Kian grabbed my
shoulder to steady me.
Whats wrong?
Nothing.
I know you, Ali. Its something.
My eyes swelled with salty tears, Its...its my father. My chest rose and shrank several times with
heaving breaths. Kian drew me into his strong form.
Im here. You can tell me.
He was a fire fighter. The fire, the smoke everyday just finally got to him, made his heart weak.
And he died. Kian spoke with a low sound, a sound that told me he understood pain too.
Just like that. The tears slipped down my pinking cheeks.
You dont have to be afraid of the fire, Ali. Kian grasped my hand. With his other fingers, he
wiped my tears. The flames wont take you too. You can control them, own them.
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I had no more words, only heaps of emotions, I didnt know what to do with. Fear and bravery
competed with each other beneath my skin. An invisible battle waged, and then I heard the words that
tipped the scales in my favor.
Remember, Ali, this power came to you because of Nathaniel, because he is gone. Fire is a gift.
Dont let the flames die with him. Dont let this gift die with your father. Both of them would want you
to conquer your fear.
I took in a deep breath, sniffled one last time, and nodded my head. As I turned from Kian, and
entered into my own space, a space I knew would soon be the conception of a power so strong it could
take life, I felt the presence of something magical. Maybe my fathers spirit? Maybe something inside
of me changed?
I focused on the air pocket five feet in front of me and a flicker in my eyes fixed Kians full attention
on my hands. However, I no longer saw my dying father, but a ghostly father and a ghostly Nathaniel
standing beside me. Glowing red-orange, my palms could have been mistaken for a star.
Then, as if I had been shooting flames all my life, the fire burst out from underneath my skin and
rushed into the aimed pocket of air. The fire moved at my simple command, the orangey flames
swirled and swiveled in the contained space, an area that had become, for a time, my fixation.
Then, just as soon as they had been born, they died.
You did it, Ali, Kian said matter-of-factly.
Yes, I beamed, like a kid opening his Christmas gift, I did.
Do it again, but this time hit the tree. He pointed ahead.
No, Kian, that will cause a park fire.
It wont. Ill use my gift of ice to freeze it. My eyes shot at him half uncertain that his plan would
work.
Trust me. I had to admit I completely did.
Okay, here goes. I flipped my palms up and felt the tingling of heat surge along my skin before
the radiant flames shot across the grass and into the chestnut trunk of the tree. The bark lit up in
crackles and the fire moved as if a forbidden dance.
Suddenly, a bolt of ice crashed into the tree, splinters of frost and bark blew left and right...but the
flames, the chaotic motion of reds and oranges, shriveled into nothingness.
It worked, I tried not to sound doubtful it ever would.
Again. Kian could see the exhaustion in my face from flying, and then firing fire. The whole
experience took a lot out of me, but he also wanted me ready for anything. The Were and Fanged
demons wouldnt hesitate to kill me. He knew it and I knew it.
Im so tired.
I know, but evening is our only time to practice and avoid being seen. You can do it, Ali. I believe
in you.
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I sighed, and then when I saw Kians elegant wings lift him into the air, I somehow grew the
strength to push the image of my bed pillows from the forefront of my mind.
With a deep breath, my toes pushed me into the air and I floated, every time feeling as if the first.
Then I grabbed onto Kians outstretch hand. Freezing.
I need you to use your gift while flying, he spoke with cold air clouting my face.
I nodded and then let go of him to lift my palms forward. I had to do this, not only for myself, but
also for my family. At any time the demons could kill Samuel to get their Essence back, or even try to
get at him through Mom. I already lost my father. I couldnt lose anyone else.
With two arms up and one leg balancing, I felt as if I belonged in a David Copperfield performance
and if I hadnt been the main attraction, Id be the one in the audience making notations in my mind
like, he is totally using wires! Wings are so fake! Except nothing about this could be more real, even
though, sometimes I could hardly believe this angel existence myself.
I focused on flying and not on plummeting to the ground as I had done so many times before.
Harder than it looked. Id been surfing only once in my life. A vacation trip I took with Dad and
Samuel a long time ago. I remembered the waves under my board, and how they pushed me every
which way and I remembered how unbalanced the world seemed at the time. However, surfing didnt
come close to the difficulties of flying. Every time I looked down, I became nauseous and whenever
another gust of wind rushed past me, I lost my balance.
Still, I had to get over myself. Nathaniel would not be proud, and I owed it to my father and to my
brother. If they could risk their lives every day as a fireman and a policeman to serve the city, then the
least I could do would be to serve as AngelFire.
I managed to hover above ground without tumbling downward for several minutes and actually felt
stable. Then I grew courageous and threw my palms into the pocket of wind that crashed past me. Fire
lit up the sky. I went from magic act to circus performer, just like that.
The fire didnt last long, because ice soon melted into the flames and then fell like rain, making the
park seem like the next hot spot for a Harry Potter movie.
You did it! Kian grinned and threw his fluffy feathers around me. He engulfed me completely and
I never felt safer than when I rested in his chest. His arms would always protect me.
It never felt long enough with him, but I needed more practice using my gifts. After all, New York
depended on the Angelfire and me to keep them safe from the demons, and though a thankless job,
where the human world never even knew what went on around them, I knew.
After squeezing Kian tightly, I fluttered further up into the dark night sky and balled my fists before
forming a mental picture of fire. I bolted toward Kian who still hovered above the ground below me
and then released my palms in the opposite direction. Flames spread over the air like a forest fire, as if
my mind moved the waves of sparkling color...and I guess my mind did.
I controlled the fire bursting from my hands, the chaotic movements of red as they mesmerized me,
until Kian propelled two icicles, one from each palm, into my sea of flames. Within seconds, the ice
swallowed the heat emanating from the flames, cooling my skin, until eventually, the very core of the
fire itself extinguished.
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We both stared at each other as if something otherworldly just took place, and in a way, something
just had. His eyes reminded me of the fire in the sky, so brilliant and bright. I couldnt take mine off of
his.
Ali, the sound of his voice kept my full attention, promise me something. Promise me, youll
never get lost in this angel world. We lose too many to the other side for this rush of power. I can
never lose you.
I must have appeared dumbfounded. I never even contemplated the effects these kinds of powers
would have over me. If anything, I felt afraid of them, not longing for more...but still, many like me, or
maybe even better than me, had fallen vulnerable to the darkness and had been snatched up into the
flock led by Azrael and Dameon.
My celestial eyes locked with his concern, I wont.
He drew closer to me, with wings flapping, and his bare chest damp with moisture from his melted
ice. A shiver rushed through him from a gust of passing wind and his hands trembled. Hairs on his
chest stood on end. I wont, I repeated and tugged his chilled form into my warm breast, then I
wrapped my wings around him. You are all I want.
His icy body absorbed my heat, the heat from my fiery hands. This warmth and those reassuring
words could be my only solace for him. He saved my life during junior year and I felt I owed him more
than just my loyalty. However, for tonight, this would have to be enough.
When the sun began to rise, we ended our practice as we had many nights prior and then we
headed out of the park. We flew side by side until reaching my house and then I crept through the
open window. Kian followed.
Ill come by late in the morning. Well go to the Angelfire house together, Kian mentioned as an
afterthought.
Id like that. I had wanted to go for sometime, ever since turning angel. Questions swirled in my
mind that I knew only the house could answer. Answers only Sammael had, answers only the secret
books held.
I can see your mind racing. What is it, Ali?
I shook my head, Nothing. Actually, everything. I needed to know more about the Weres and
Fanged demons and more about Azrael and Dameon. If I was going to help defeat them, I needed to
know all I could, but I also knew the Angelfire house kept tight reins on all their secrets.
I would have to play this one well.
After giving Kian a soft kiss on the cheek, he pulled me closer and our lips met. His heavenly
features and tender touch always left him unforgettable. No boy had ever kissed me before as he had,
as if everything in his fiber poured out of him in that single moment just to be with me.
Climbing into bed, my wings collapsed into my sides. I hardly felt the transition anymore. I didnt
feel as exhausted as I once did when I had been human, but I still needed my sleep. Kian brushed my
blonde hair as I closed my eyes and he eased my way into a dream. With him near me, dreams came
easily.