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• Lucinda "Luce" Price: The protagonist of the series. She is in love with Daniel but, wonders why he is keeping so many secrets from her. She is human. She also has been reincarnated many times. Because she had not been born into a religion in this life, and therefore was not baptized, if she dies, she cannot reincarnate. She is traveling back in time through the announcers until she finds and learns what she needs to.
• Daniel Grigori: A fallen Angel who is desperately in love with Luce. Is cursed so he has followed "Lucinda" through history.
• Cameron "Cam" Briel: A fallen angel that is on the demon side. Took a liking to Luce at Sword & Cross.
• Roland: A fallen angel (On Satan's side) and a friend of Cam. Also a friend of Daniel that helps out when least expected.
• Bill: Luce's gargoyle guide through the Announcers in her journey through time. He teaches he the basics of traveling and 3-D.
• Shelby: Luce's friend who is Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans. Miles is one of her best friends.
• Miles: Luce's friend who is also Nephilim. He is said to like Luce. Shelby is one of his best friends.
• Henrietta: Luce's fellow kitchen maid in England. She is originally from Penzance.
• Lucia: This is Luce in Italy. She was a nurse during World War I.
• Layla: Luce's life as an Egyptain slave. Partner is Donkor.
• Lucifer: Satan. The Devil.
• Daniil: Daniel during Luce's previous life in Moscow during World War II. Partner is Luschka.
• Luschka: Luce in a previous life - Moscow during WWII. Luce witnesses her dying. Partner is Daniil.
• Lucinda Biscoe: The very spoiled Luce in Victorian Era England.
• Arriane: Fallen Angel on the angel side. She is spunky and energetic. She has a bad scar on the side of her neck. First met in Sword & Cross. She is dating Roland.
• Lulu: Luce in Tahiti.
• Kafele: Egyptian guard.
• Miss McGovern: Luce's boss in Victorian Era England when she goes undercover.
• Kristina: Luschka's sister. She had been digging in the trenches in hopes of saving Moscow.
• Mrs. Holcombe: She is the mother of Edward. Edward is one of Daniel's drawing students in Victoria Era England.
• Lys Virgily, Princess of Savoy: Luce's life in Versailles, France.
• Doria: Luce must go undercover and uses a different name in Italy, so she goes by Doria.
• Anne-Marie: Lys' chamber maid.
• Margaret Constance: She is a friend of Lucinda Briscoe. Everything takes place at her mansion.
• Amelia Constance: She is Margaret's sister.
• Mytle: The name Bill chooses for Luce in Victorian England.
• Giovanni Bruno: An injured soldier in Italy that thinks Luce is his angel. When Luce takes him to the hospital, he only wishes for her to care for him.
• Donkor: Daniel as the new commander of the Egyptian army. Bill refers to him as Don. Partner is Layla.
• Sophia Bliss: An Elder of Zhsmaelim. She is a school librarian who had only served as secretary on the Zhsmaelim board - was not the highest ranking official among the Elders.
• Vivina Sole: An Elder of Zhsmaelim.
• Lyrica Crisp: An Elder of Zhsmaelim.
• Lucinda Muller: Luce's life in Prussia.
• Philip: He is a member of The Outcasts.
• Ix Cuat: Luce in the Mayan Culture.
• Zotz: Daniel's team mate in a Mayan game which is kinda a cross between basketball and soccer.
• Hanhau: A female sacrifice with Ix Cuat. (One of Luce's past lives.)
• Ghanan: A female sacrifice with Ix Cuat. (A past life of Luce)
• Lilith: A women from ancient Jerusalem who knew Cam and Daniel. She is also an ancestor of a girl in Luce's present times.
• Lu Xin: Luce's name in her previous life in China.
• De: Daniel in Luce's previous life in China.
• Dani: This was Daniel's name in Jerusalem, Israel.
• Auset: The Pharaoh's daughter who doesn't like Layla.
• Annabelle: A fallen angel. Arianne's 'sister'. Luce meets her in this novel.
• Molly: A fallen angel on Satan's side. Takes a special liking to Shelby. Has Hated Luce since Sword&Cross.
• Edward: One of the former Italian artist Daniel's art student.

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• “There is no careful. You are a bull in the china shop of love. You'll have no way of knowing what you've broken or how precious it may be. Any change you enact is not going to be obvious. There will be no great sign reading IF YOU VEER RIGHT, YOU SHALL BE A PRINCESS, VERSUS IF YOU VEER LEFT, YOU'LL BE A SCULLERY MAID FOREVER.”

  Roland

• “But even if you succeed, you won't know it, my dear. The very moment you change your past? That event will be as it has always been. And everything that comes after it will be as it has always been. Time tidies up after itself. and you're part of it, so you will not know the difference.”

  Roland

• “Daniel and you would be nothing. It's a hard reality, okay, fine. But think about it: You wouldn't have to hurt him anymore. Grow up, Luce. There's more to life than teenage passion.”

  Bill

• “Few souls are pure anything, in Heaven, in Hell, or on Earth.”

  Daniel Grigori

• “Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.”

• “I can't reach her. Somehow I am eternally arriving a heartbeat too late, as though someone or something is working behind the scenes to keep her from me.”

  Daniel

• “But that's the nature of risk, isn't it? You gamble everything on the slenderest of hopes.”

  Daniel

• “Grow up, Luce. There's more to life than teenage passion.”

  Bill

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• “I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.”

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• “But that’s the nature of risk, isn’t it? You gamble everything on the slenderest of hopes.”

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• What on earth did you do with your hands when the one thing they wanted to hold was suddenly, gruesomely gone?

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• “I’ll always choose you.” Yes, that was the word. “Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”

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• “No pretending.” Bill shook his head. “Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.”

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• “If one day her soul comes into being without the weight of sacrament having chosen a side for her, then she shall be free to grow and choose for herself, to reenact this moment. To escape the ordained punishment. And in so doing, to put the final test to this love that you claim supersedes the rights of Heaven and family; her choice then will be your redemption or the final seal on your punishment. That is all that can be done.”

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• “And the stars in the sky fell to the earth, like figs blown off a tree in a gale …”

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• “Honey, Daniel loving the real you is the last thing you should be worried about. You’re freaking soul mates. You two coined the phrase. You don’t have to stick around here to see that. It’s in every life.”

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• “Look, let me give you the CliffsNotes: You’re a bitch in this life and Daniel doesn’t care. Shocker! He courts you for a few weeks, there’s some exchanging of flowers. A big kiss and then kaboom. Okay? Not much more to see.”

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• ethnocentric. That means thinking your own culture is superior to other cultures.”

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• Heaven
• Helston, England: June 18, 1854 which is during the Victorian era.
• Moscow, Russia: October 15, 1941 which is during World War II.
• Versailles, France: February 14, 1723
• Prussia: January 7, 1758
• Milan, Italy: May 25, 1918 which is during World War I.
• Lhasa, Tibet: April 30, 1740
• Tahiti: December 11, 1775
• London, England: June 29, 1613
• Globe Theater: Luce performs on stage before it goes up in flames. William Shakespeare is present.
• Central Greenland: Winter 1100
• Chichen Itza, Mesoamerica: Approximately December 20, 555
• Jerusalem, Israel: Approximately April 1, 1000 BCE
• Yin, China: Approximately April 4, 1046
• Memphis, Egypt: Approximately 3100 BCE
• Savannah, Georgia: November 27, 2009

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• Zhsmaelim: A cluser of mortals, immortals, and a few transeternals that aer an axis of knowledge, passion, and faith with a single uniting goals: to restore the world to its prelapsarian state, that brief glorious moment before the angels' Fall.
• The Outcasts: They are blind with white eyes. They believe that Luce is the only creature that can get them restore back to Heaven.

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• the Scale: They are like hall monitors within the Announcers who make sure travelers get where they are going.
• Announcers: Black shadows that can tell you the past. They are also portals.

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Preceded by Torment, and followed by Rapture.

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1. Lauren Kate (Author)

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• Dewey: 135.1

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

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