Torment (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Lucinda (Luce) Price: Protagonist, in love with the fallen angel, Daniel, at seventeen (again!). Transferred to a new location while Daniel stays his distance to keep her safe.
• Daniel Grigori: Co-protagonist of the series and a fallen angel. Is in love with Lucinda Price. Appears to be seventeen but is truly ancient. Daniel is suppose to stay away from Luce for 18 days while fighting off and killing all of those who want to kill her to end the curse of reincarnation.
• Cameron Briel: Also known as, Cam. Co-protagonist of the book and also a fallen angel-demon.
• Arriane Alter: Luce's fallen angel friend from Sword and Cross.
• Miles Fisher: A Nephilim boy from Shoreline who becomes fast friends with Luce, but thinks of her as more than just a friend.
• Shelby Sterris: A Nephilim girl who is strong willed, and is also friends with Luce and Miles. She thinks that Miles and Luce should be together.
• Francesca: A fallen angel who teaches Humanities at Shoreline. Partner is Steven. She's very beautiful and makes everything beautiful just by being in the room.
• Steven Filmore: A demon who teaches Humanities at Shoreline. Partner is Francesca. Helps Luce learn to control and glimpse the Announcers (formerly known as "shadows"). A little more of a rebel, he is willing to push the line on the rules that Francesca lays down to help Luce.
• Dawn: One of Luce's friends at Shoreline. She looks so much like Luce that they could be sisters. Dawn is best friends with Jasmine. She a little flighty sometimes but always has a smile on her face.
• Jasmine: One of Luce's friends at Shoreline. Jasmine is best friends with Dawn.
• Phillip Aves: Shelby's "Sorry-ass-ex-boyfriend".
• Roland Sparks: A fallen angel on the evil side. He was Daniel's best friend at Sword & Cross but later comes to Shoreline.
• Vera: Luce's sister from a previous life. Works at a casino in Las Vegas.
• Mr. Cole: Teacher at Sword and Cross who helps Daniel arrange Luce's secret transfer to Shoreline. Also provides Luce's cover at Sword and Cross since her parents can't know where she is.
• Molly: A fallen angel from Sword and Cross who doesn't like Luce. A demon. Bullies Luce when she first arrives at Sword and Cross.
• Callie: Luce's best friend from Dover Academy. Callie actively attempts to keep her friendship with Luce.
• Ms. Fisher: Miles' great-aunt that appears at the Harvest Fest.
• Andrew Price: Luce's Father.
• Doreen Price: Luce's Mother.
• Luce: Add a description of this character.

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• “If anyone gives you a second look just give 'em a third one.”

  Arriane to Luce

• “Happy Thanksgiving to you, too. We heard your house was the place to be today.”

  Cam to Luce

• “You want to bear witness to more gruesome scenes like the one we examined in class the other day?”

  Francesca

• “Steven also thinks he doesn't need to call a plumber when the toilet overflows.”

  Francesca

• “What are you doing here?" Her voice was bone-dry because she couldn't talk to Daniel without talking to Cam, too, and she couldn't talk to Cam without wanting to throw something heavy at him.”

  Narrator and Luce

• “I trust him to be true to his nature, which is a demon's. You need to trust that those around you will be true to thier natures. Even when it may appear that they are betraying who they are.”

  Francesca

• “Gee I don't know Luce. I was kind of distracted by the dead body.”

  Shelby Sterris

• “The victors rewrite history.”

  Cam

• “Time to go.”

  Luce

• “I will always catch you when you fall.”

• “Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith”

• “"There, in the darkness, her heart pounding, she willed them to come out. She called on those coldest, darkest things, asking them to deliver her past, to illuminate her and Daniel's story. She called on them to solve the mystery of who he was and why he had chosen her.Even if the truth broke her heart." (kindle pg. 266)”

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• The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.

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• “If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn’t you guys come down in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-shirts?” “We should order those,” Shelby said. “Mine’s in the laundry,” Arriane said.

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• Would he find her? Without question. Would he save her? Always.

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• In Heaven, eighteen was the luckiest, most divine number: a life-affirming tally of two sevens (the archangels and the cardinal virtues), balanced with the warning of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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• “She is not a game to me.” “And that is exactly why you will lose.”

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• Their intimate Thanksgiving dinner was now serving twelve: four humans, two Nephilim, six fallen angels (three each on the side of Good and Evil), and one dog dressed as a turkey, with his bowl of scraps under the table.

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• The Outcasts: a sect of spineless, waffling angels, shunned by both Heaven and Hell. Their one great strength was the reclusive angel Azazel, the only remaining starsmith, who still knew the art of producing starshots. When loosed from its silver bow, a starshot could do little more than bruise a mortal. But to angels and demons, it was the deadliest weapon of all.

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• “I will always catch you when you fall.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

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• Shoreline: The boarding school Luce attends after she leaves Sword & Cross
• Fort Bragg: Located in California.
• Sword and Cross: Luce's old boarding school. Located in Georgia.
• California: State in the United States of America
• Georgia: State in which Luce is from.
• San Francisco, CA: City in California
• Mendocino: A location in which Luce travels through.
• Las Vegas, NV: Travels to.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Fallen, and followed by Passion.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lauren Kate (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 135.1

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• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance

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