Azazel

Hidden powers, a fallen angel, and a witch, what could go wrong? Sybil is being hunted. When she decides it’s safe to venture outside her normal routine, she’s chased into DeLux Café. Unexpectedly invited to participate in the Underworld’s speed dating, meeting the fallen angel Azazel brightens her night, but can he calm the power within her and keep her safe from the looming threat? Azazel never expected to find his mate at the speed dating night at DeLux Café, but the fates had a different idea. When he learns that Sybil is being hunted for an ability he bestowed on her bloodline, he knows that he has to protect her at all cost. Azazel is book five in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world, filled with badass fallen angels, sassy witches, and more.

The Tragedy of Azazel tells of the rise and fall of the Watcher Azazel as he goes from being an important cherub of repentance to a demon of sin. It explores Azazel's mysterious connection to the demon Iblis as well as the historical development of the ancient practice of sin-eating. In this short story a reoccuring character that appears in other titles of LeSouffrir's including The Tragedy of Mastema:Last of the Satanim, Historia Regum Obscurum Book I, and the much anticipated Path(os) of Redemption Part 2, has his origins revealed.

Jason wants to punish himself for all the horrible things he's done, and so he's been lying low and wallowing in his guilt. When he discovers that Kieran and Eve are threatening his son, Chance, he finds Azazel so that the two of them can stop Kieran and Eve. Kieran and Eve, now in possession of Jason and Azazel's powers, have the world in a chokehold. They see everything, know everything, and control everything. The only way to stop them is for Jason and Azazel to take back their powers. But in order to do so, they must go through a series of tests, each pushing them deeper into their own darkness...

Azazel arrives at Jason's community calling herself Joan, with no memory of who she is or what they've shared together. But Jason recognizes her, and once he realizes his powers of persuasion work on her now, he's willing to do anything to keep her with him, no matter how macabre or immoral. Kieran wanted to use the grimoire to purge Azazel's powers, but instead he's transferred them to himself, along with her memories. When he discovers the Order of the Fly wants to use him to control the world, he sets off to find Azazel, determined to return her powers and memory so that she can stop the OF's attempt at world domination.

Azazel relishes the chance to be on the offensive for once. Chased all her life, fighting one enemy or another who intended to kill her, it's nice to be pursuing the bad guys instead of running from them. Of course, Jason doesn't agree that they're bad guys. He doesn't think they have the right to make moral judgments like that. Not after all the horrible things they've done. He chooses to stay home and get to know his son, Chance. Jason spends his days playing with Chance and going to parent-teacher conferences. Azazel spends hers hunting down and killing people who sell Nephilim blood. Jason tries to pretend he doesn't long for a life of action, but deep down, he misses violence. He craves it. The strain of domestic life is getting to Jason. It won't be long until he snaps.

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An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 800 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to the religion of Judaism.

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