An ER nurse discovers her guardian angel is real—and hunky—in Withrow and Pinkis’ fantasy romance novel.

Brianna Weldon has finally accepted that her memory of what happened the day her mother died—as she recalls, the two of them were attacked in their car by shadow creatures until a beautiful man with bright blue eyes appeared and saved Brianna—was just a traumatic hallucination. At least, that’s what her therapist says it was, and she’s sick of arguing about it. That was five years ago, and Brianna is ready to move on with her life—she’s just secured a nursing job close to her best friend, and she’s finally leaving her hometown behind. On the road to her new home, however, the necklace that (so far as she remembers) the blue-eyed man gave her—the one he told her never to take off—starts to burn her skin. When she removes it, the shadow creatures immediately return and run her car off the road. Luckily, her guardian angel, who turns out to be a literal angel from an otherworldly realm called Elysium, once again arrives to pull her from the wreckage. His name is Cameron, and Brianna quickly learns how useful he is to have around; he’s a “slayer of demons and speeding tickets alike,” and when he sleeps in her bed at night, her thoughts aren’t entirely chaste. It soon becomes clear that demonic forces are out to steal Brianna’s pendant, and they may be too powerful for even Cameron to handle. Withrow and Pinkis slowly and deftly build the romantic tension between Brianna and her angel, highlighting his mystical yet alluring glow: “He was all sunlit haloes in the daytime, but the moon had a different effect, making him quiet and silver, like a shimmering reflection. One that drew her ever closer. One that she was aching to reach out and touch.” The relative wholesomeness of the relationship is effectively balanced by the truly horrifying—and sometimes seductive—beasts who crawl out of the underworld to complicate Brianna’s life.

An imaginative and engaging romance set in a world watched over by angels and plagued by demons.