Orphan. Slave. Drug dealer.

In an Afterworld that literally has Hell and Heaven on Earth, Wen White is the lowest a being can be. Her life is one of drudgery, degradation—and mortal danger. And that's before she started dealing Angelescence. Unlike anything in existence, it's a drug only she can produce, and everyone would kill for.

With decommission and execution closing in, she's desperate to buy out her and her best friend's Indentures. But upping her operations only gets her arrested, and her terrifying captor drags her to the Celestial Court—on a leash—to stand trial. Her sentence?

Conscription to Celestial Academy.

As the most powerful nephilim in history, Godric is Heaven's most ruthless soldier and assassin. Now he's not only her tormentor—he's her mentor. He's been assigned with discovering the root of her unprecedented ability to capture Angel Essence—and weaponizing it.

They both hate their forced proximity—and each other. That doesn't stop them from seething with cravings that neither ever thought to experience, and can't possibly afford. Anything between them isn't only forbidden, it's disastrous. Potentially for all of existence.

But being embroiled in their private war becomes the least of their worries when he unearths even more terrible mysteries within her. Meanwhile, lethal trials loom at mid-term, and a devastating internal war as well as another Apocalypse are brewing…

…and Wen is at the center of it all.

Anomaly. Weapon. HIS.

After barely surviving the deadly Imperium Trials, their verdict reveals the shocking and unprecedented potential of Wen's Unitas. But it's her they expose as something that shouldn't exist.

The discovery is so appalling, their immortal professors decide to keep it a secret, until they figure out how to deal with the implications–and her. She's only relieved to postpone another complication. She have enough dealing with the escalating menaces of Academy life–and that Level-Nine Hunk of Frustration.

Godric. Her former nemesis, her indispensable mentor and her one craving. The maddening Angelhole who ordered her to forget his life-changing sacrifice. And his kiss. That kiss…

So what if he thinks they are a disaster of epic proportions in the making? Or that she's playing with a weapon of mass destruction? Now that she know he reciprocates her obsession, there's no stopping her from trying to shatter his control, and to set the passion seething between them ablaze.

But it seems Existence itself agrees with him, as a chain reaction of traumatic events conspire to come between them. Every incident feels like a step closer to the devastating internal war he sparked on her behalf, even as a far larger threat looms ever closer.

Wen is still ready to face anything as long as he and her Unitas are by her side–until a terrifying turn of events forces her into an impossible choice.

And whatever she does, she will most probably end up dooming them all.