The Angel Machaira

The angel Machaira has experienced the ever-warming embrace of the almighty God. Now she has sacrificed that to defend children from the evils of a fallen world, a world where pedophiles have rights and a child murderer is innocent until proven guilty. Machaira will stop at nothing to serve her own kind of penance on these rogues. Legend has it that once an angel falls from grace, they can never go back, that they are doomed to hell. That makes her a very dangerous angel. If she's going to hell regardless, why not enjoy the ride. Machaira will hunt these people down and show them every courtesy that they showed their victims, and along the way, she realizes what it means to be human.

Angels, like humans, have "free will," and at times, they even disagree with what the Almighty has tasked them to complete, but only a few have ever defied Him: Lucifer, Lilith, and now the angel Blade. She had been in his celestial service for over two thousand years, and now she wants to experience all that is human. What Blade doesn't realize is that to be truly human, she must experience pain, heartache, and betrayal in order to find happiness, pleasure, and love. She is subjected to human frailties, moral weaknesses, temptations, and arrogance. God sends her help in order to guide her along her chosen path, but only she can decide to listen. Because of Blade's bold defiance, she sets in motion a chain of events that could very well destroy this fallen world. 0

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