When Ash Rains Down (kingdom Come) (volume 1)

Being crowned homecoming queen and enduring a week at the center of her classmates' attention is eighteen-year-old Julia Whites worst nightmareeven with Cole, her long-time crush, as her date. But when Julia is attacked by a green-blooded demon that vanishes in a plume of smoke, she comes face to face with what real nightmares look likein the flesh, and all of the homecoming stuff hardly matters anymore. As a frightening wave of crime infiltrates her small Wisconsin town, Julia tries to avoid Nicholas, a brooding, infuriating relative of Coles, who insists shes the reason behind the corruption. He claims the culprits are demons who are after powers that only shea human-angel hybridpossesses. Its unbelievable, of course, until he takes her to a hidden battlefield where warrior angels train to fight soul-siphoning demonsand her own angelic wings unfold. When angels and demons draw battle lines, endangering everyone in their way, Julia has to find a way to protect them all, including herself. Because as it turns out, shes the devil's most powerful weapon against the angels, and hell stop at nothing to claim her. The final battle between Heaven and Hell has begun. When Ash Rains Down is the first book in debut author Cecelia Earls Kingdom Come series.