From national bestselling author Sharon Shinn comes a stunningly beautiful novel of a distant future--where the fate of the world rests on the voice of an angel...
She has also received an RT Book Reviews Reviewers\' Choice Award and won RT Book Reviews\'s 2010 Career Achievement Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category..
Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W.
She has won the William L.
Her first novel, The Shape-Changer\'s Wife, was a nominee for Locus\'s Best First Fantasy Novel of 1995.
Campbell Award for Best New Writer About the Author: Sharon Shinn is the national bestselling author of the Elemental Blessings novels, as well as the Shifting Circle novels.
Winner of the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy Nominated for the John W.
Rachel, however, has other ideas...
And Gabriel is certain that she will greet the news of her betrothal with enthusiasm, and a devotion to duty equal to his own.
It is his destiny and hers.
The oracles have chosen Gabriel for this honor, and further decreed that he must first wed a mortal woman named Rachel.
But with the coming of an age of corruption, Samaria\'s only hope lies in the crowning of a new Archangel.
Generations later, the armed starship Jehovah still looms over the planet of Samaria, programmed to unleash its arsenal if peace is not sustained.
Jehovah to watch over them all...
Angels to guard the mortals and mystics to guard the forbidden knowldge.
Diverse peoples held together by respect for each other.
Through science, faith, and force of will, the Harmonics carved out for themselves a society that they conceived as perfect.
From national bestselling author Sharon Shinn comes a stunningly beautiful novel of a distant future--where the fate of the world rests on the voice of an angel..
