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Lords of Deliverance: Book 3

Lethal Rider (2012) (edit title/settings)

by Larissa Ione (Author) (edit contributors)

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They're here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Born of a match between good and evil, four siblings stand between hell's minions and everything they want to destroy. They are the Lords of Deliverance, and they have the power to ward off Doomsday . . . or let it ride . . .... read more

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  • Thanatos: "Death" - "Than" - "Bludrexe" - Fourth of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Half-angel & half-demon; Ares, Limos & Reseph's brother; A massive guy with deeply tanned skin; Has pale yellow eyes and shoulder-length tawny hair with two thin braids at each temple; Has many tattoos including a scorpion on his neck, cracked, bleeding bones inked on his hands, various weapons decorating his arms and depictions of death and destruction on his back and chest; Has an eyebrow and both nipples pierced; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised among Druidic people; Believed for thousands of years that his agimortus was his virginity
  • Regan Cooper: Only female Aegis Elder; Is pregnant with Thanatos' son; Born to a human mother and a father who was possessed by a demon at the time she was conceived; Is a psychometric empath; Can wrest the soul from any living thing; A stunning, bronze-skinned woman; Her long, thick lashes frame her hazel eyes and she wears her dark brown hair in a ponytail or braid that reaches her thighs; Is tall and curvy; 25 years old
  • Logan Thanatos: "Ponyboy" - Thanatos & Regan's son; Has hazel eyes and blond hair
  • Reseph: "Pestilence" - "Pest" - First of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Half-angel & half-demon; Thanatos, Ares & Limos' brother; Has broad shoulders, long platinum hair and ice-blue eyes; The most easygoing and playful of the siblings, the brother who has held them all together over the centuries; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised by a powerful Akkadian priestess; His agimortus was an event (the warg civil war)
  • Ares: "War" - Cara's mate & husband; Second of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Half-angel & half-demon; Thanatos, Limos & Reseph's brother; A massive male with short reddish brown hair and nearly black eyes; Is nearly seven-feet tall of pure muscle; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised in ancient Egypt; His agimortus is a person
  • Cara Thornhart: Ares' mate & wife; Immortal human; Totem Priestess; Was Hell's Kiss by Cerberus, the hellhound king which made her immortal and bonded to nearly all hellhounds in existence; Has sandy-blonde hair and crystal blue eyes with flecks of green and gold
  • Rath: Ramreel demon; Ares & Cara's adopted son; Torrent's son; Vulgrim & Sireth's grandson; A toddler
  • Limos: "Famine" - "Li" - Arik's mate & wife; Third of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Half-angel & half-demon; Thanatos, Ares & Reseph's sister; Has black hair and violet eyes; Has a belly piercing and a set of scales tattooed on her shoulder blade; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised in Sheoul; Her agimortus is a small ivory bowl engraved with a set of scales, that if drunk from by a Horseman, will break her Seal; Is supposed to be Satan's bride
  • Arik Wagner: Limos' mate & husband; Immortal human; Runa's brother; Kynan's Army buddy; Army Sergeant First Class; Works for R-XR; New Aegis Guardian; Ex-Delta Force operative; Has hazel eyes and dark hair cut in a severe high-and-tight; Since surviving a deadly demon disease, he can now learn any demon language after hearing only a few words
  • Kynan Morgan: "Ky" – Marked Sentinel; Part Fallen Angel; Gem's mate & husband; Dawn's father; Sariel's descendant; Highest ranking Aegis Elder; Used to work for R-XR; Former Doctor at Underworld General; Former Regent of the NYC Aegis cell; Former Army medic; Is six-two and lean with thick, muscular arms, a broad chest and deeply tanned skin; Has spiky brown hair and denim-blue eyes; Speaks with a gravelly voice due to a throat injury while in Afghanistan; Charmed so he can't be harmed by anyone other than Angels; Newest keeper of Heofon
  • Gemella Endri: "Gem" - Doctor at Underworld General; Kynan's mate & wife; Dawn's mother; Tayla's older twin sister; Half-human & half-Soulshredder demon; Has shoulder-length red-streaked black hair and green eyes; Wears Goth clothing and has a pierced tongue, eyebrow, ears & navel; Her tattoos include Celtic bands around her ankles, wrists & neck, a long-stemmed rose running the length of her left leg and a dragon covers her belly with its teeth appearing to clamp down on her navel piercing
  • Dawn Morgan: Kynan & Gemella's daughter; Almost 1 year old; First ever born Marked Sentinel; Part human, angel & Soulshredder demon; Has dark brown hair and denim-blue eyes
  • Hades: Fallen Angel; A massive man with a dark blue mohawk; Would be handsome if not for his extreme paleness that reveals a pattern of black veins beneath his skin; Has black, leathery wings protruding from his back and extending to his calves; Runs Sheoul-gra
  • Azagoth: "Grim Reaper" - Fallen Angel; Idess' father; Rumored to be the Four Horsemen's father; Is the epitome of male beauty; Appears to be in his early 30's; Is tall, with black hair, emerald eyes, chiseled cheekbones and a strong, square jaw.
  • Decker Cready: "Deck" - Works for R-XR; New Aegis Elder; Arik's former partner; Has gray-blue eyes and blond hair cut in a high-and-tight; Speaks with a Texas twang
  • Suzi: Aegis Guardian; Regan's only friend and companion during her pregnancy
  • Juan: Aegis Elder
  • Lance: Aegis Elder from Canada; Mysoginist
  • Jarrod: Aegis Elder; Vampire expert; Died a year ago
  • Dr. Rodanski: Human; Regan's doctor
  • Viktor: Vampire; One of Thanatos' daywalkers; Has dark eyes
  • Ian: Aegis Elder; A hotheaded a**hole; Has green eyes
  • Chad: Aegis Elder
  • Valeriu Macek: "Val" - Aegis Elder; Serena & David's father; Speaks with a Romanian accent; Archaeologist and former archaeology professor, one of the few who specialized in paranormal archaeology and demon artifacts
  • Artur: Vampire; Thanatos' oldest daywalker and the one who has been with him for over 4,500 years; Has long hair and a tattoo on his neck
  • Atrius: Vampire; One of Thanatos' daywalkers; Had a great sense of humor; Was the peace keeper between Thanatos' nightwalker and daywalker vamps; Was replaced by Pestilence's doppelgänger
  • Jacob: Vampire; One of Thanatos' daywalkers
  • Nathan Sabine: "Nate" - Vladlena's mate; Daywalker Vampire; Has long blue-black hair that falls below his broad shoulders and crystalline azure eyes; 227 years old; Club manager at Thirst; Speaks with a faint French accent; Is six-four and pure muscle
  • Vladlena Paskelkov: "Lena" - Nathan's mate; Cross breed between a hyena-shifter and a werewolf; Dr. Yuri's daughter; Nurse at Underworld General; Has a star-shaped mark behind her ear; Is five-nine with tan skin, hip-length blonde hair and soft brown eyes
  • Malik: Aegis Elder; Fought demons in the Middle East for thirty years before being promoted to Sigil
  • Zachary: "Zach" - Aegis Elder
  • Omar: Aegis Elder
  • Takumi: Aegis Elder
  • Conall Dearghul: "Con" - Sin's mate; Vampire; Former dhampire; Paramedic at Underworld General; Former Warg Council member; Has deeply tanned skin, sun-streaked blond hair and silver eyes; Is six-five with broad shoulders and a lean athletic build; Is over 1,000 years old
  • Sinead Donnelly: "Sin" - "Smurfette" - Conall's mate; Seminus demon/human half-breed; Only female Seminus ever; Lore's twin sister; Eidolon, Shade & Wraith's sister; Former assassin master; Has waist-length blue-black hair and coal-black eyes; Her dermoire looks faded and lacks a personal symbol; Is petite with a toned body; Works in Underworld General's infectious disease department
  • Kathy: Regent for one of the Frankfurt Aegis cells
  • Shade: Seminus demon; Runa's mate; Rade, Stryke & Blade's father; Eidolon, Wraith, Lore & Sinead's brother; Runs the Paramedic program for Underworld General; Has an Umber demon mother; Is nearly six-four with brownish-black eyes and shoulder-length, nearly black hair; Wears a stud on his left ear; Can turn to shadow in the presence of a shadow; Since Runa bit him, he can now shift at will into a massive black werewolf and is forced to shift every full moon
  • Runa Wagner: Varcolac Werewolf; Shade's mate; Rade, Stryke & Blade's mother; Arik's sister; Used to work for R-XR; Has long, caramel brown hair, pale champagne eyes and smooth, golden skin; Can shift at will into a toffee-colored werewolf, thanks to one of R-XR's experiments; Runs the daycare at Underworld General along with Serena & Idess
  • Eidolon: "Doc E" - "Hellboy" - Seminus demon; Tayla's mate; New father; Shade, Wraith, Lore & Sinead's brother; Doctor; Head of Underworld General; Has a Judicia demon mother; Former Justice Dealer; Is six-four with expresso eyes and short nearly black hair
  • Tayla Mancuso: "Tay" - Eidolon's mate; New mother; Regent of the NYC Aegis cell; Gemella's younger twin sister; Half-human & half-Soulshredder demon; Has burgundy hair, green eyes rimmed with gold and pale freckles shimmering just beneath the surface of her creamy skin
  • Wraith: Seminus demon; Serena's mate; Talon's (aka Stewie) father; Eidolon, Shade, Lore & Sinead's younger brother; Has a vampire mother, which is an anomaly; Is six-five with blue eyes and shoulder-length, bleached blond hair; 101 years old; Procurer of ancient relics and magical artifacts for Underworld General; Charmed so he can't be harmed by anyone other than Angels
  • Serena Kelley: "Sere" - Vampire; Wraith's mate; Talon's (aka Stewie) stepmother; Valeriu & Patrice's daughter; Treasure Hunter; Former Marked Sentinel and keeper of Heofon; She possesses an uncanny ability to locate anything she's looking for; 26 years old; Is five-five with wavy blonde hair and big brown eyes shot through with gold; Runs the daycare at Underworld General along with Runa & Idess
  • Serkhama: Vampire; One of Thanatos' daywalkers
  • Hans: Aegis Guardian
  • Shylon: Aegis Guardian
  • Rebecca: Aegis Guardian
  • Sammara: Aegis Guardian; Works in the Tech Department
  • Reaver: Battle Angel of the Power order of angels; One of the Horsemen's two Watchers; Team Heaven; Former Fallen Angel; Former Healer at Underworld General; A tall stunning male; Has long, thick golden hair, sapphire blue eyes and sapphire-tipped white wings; Can't recall anything that took place before the event that caused his fall a quarter century ago; His memory, as well as all evidence of his very existence, has been wiped for some reason; No angel, fallen or otherwise can remember him either.
  • Harvester: Female fallen angel; One of the Horsemen's two Watchers; Team Sheoul; Former Throne Angel; Is six-six with long black hair, green eyes and black wings
  • Gethel: Apocalypse Angel; A beautiful, sparkly female with blonde hair; Has white wings shot through with gold; The Horsemen's former Heavenly Watcher; Was rotated out of Watcher duty to give the assignment to Reaver
  • Peter: Vampire; One of Thanatos' nightwalkers; Speaks with a Russian accent; Has slicked-back blond hair
  • Dariq: Vampire; One of Thanatos' daywalkers; Has been with Thanatos for almost 900 years
  • Rowlari: Demon; Had gray-blue eyes, blue lips and frosty skin; Was Thanatos' best friend for 1,000 years
  • Lilith: Evil succubus; The Four Horsemen's mother; Sabbet's sister; Part of Satan's inner circle; Has black hair and violet eyes
  • Yenrieth: Battle angel; Four Horsemen's father; Has not been seen since Lilith became pregnant; When he was last seen he had broad shoulders and thick muscles with blond hair and pure white wings
  • Markus: Vampire; One of Thanatos' daywalkers
  • Medras: Daywalker Vampire; Wildling; Has blond hair; Former monk
  • Lucifer: Fallen Angel; Satan's right-hand man; Is tall with black hair and glowing crimson eyes
  • Idess: "Cookie" – Lore's mate; Former Memitim Angel; Azagoth's daughter; Is tall and curvy with an athletic build; Has chestnut hair she wears in a waist-length pony-tail, honey-colored almond eyes and smooth porcelain skin; Over 2,000 years old; Has a piercing at the top of her right ear; Guides human souls out of Underworld General and into the light; Can communicate with Thanatos's souls; Runs the daycare at Underworld General along with Runa & Serena
  • Lore: "Loren" - Idess' mate; Seminus demon/human half-breed; Sinead’s twin; Eidolon, Shade & Wraith's brother; Is six-six and massive male with short, nearly black hair and ebony eyes; Has a tongue piercing; Was born in 1880; His dermoire looks faded and lacks a personal symbol; Former assassin; Chief Medical Examiner at Underworld General
  • Jean: Aegis Guardian; Kevin's wife; Regan's second foster mother; Was killed in a car crash when Regan was 9 years old
  • Kevin: Aegis Guardian; Jean's husband; Regan's second foster father
  • Tabitha: Aegis Guardian; Shawn's wife; Regan's third foster mother
  • Shawn: Aegis Guardian; Tabitha's husband; Regan's third foster father
  • Vlad Tepes: "Vlad the Impaler" - "Dracula"
  • Roland: Vampire; One of Thanatos' nightwalkers; Has a messy mop of red hair that always hangs in his eyes
  • Owain: Vampire; One of Thanatos' nightwalkers; A stocky blond with a pronounced limp
  • Orelia: Silas demon; Thanatos' tattoo artist; Is pale and eyeless
  • Michael: Archangel
  • Logan Matthews: Aegis Guardian; Regan's father
  • Styx: Thanatos' war horse; A pale dun stallion
  • Halitosis: "Hal" - Hellhound; Eater of Chaos' son; Cerberus' grandson; Has shaggy black fur and glowing red eyes
  • Conquest: Reseph's war horse; A white stallion
  • Buster: Regan's black lab puppy while she lived with Jean & Kevin
  • Velcro: Hellhound assigned to guard Regan
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  • “The baby had clearly turned her brain to mush, and she'd become a classic horror movie dipshit who got killed in the first five minutes of the film. Awesome.”
    Regan Matthews
  • “Do you know how many episodes of "Jersey Shore" you can watch before you want to gouge out your own eyes? I do, and it's probably a lot fewer than you'd guess.”
    Thanatos
  • “For the next eight and a half months, you're going to be mine. Every. Night.”
    Thanatos
  • “Behold! Innocence is Death’s curse, his hunger his burden, a blade his Deliverance. The Doom Star cometh if the cry fails.”
    Daemonica Prophecy
  • “First cry weakens the heart... a plunge of the blade ends it.”
    Torran Prophecy
  • “If I want to invite the entire Miami Dolphins team into my bed and have a big orgy while covered in chocolate sauce, you have no say in that whatsoever.”
    Regan Matthews
  • “I was a virgin before you. You woke a sleeping demon, Regan. I tried to sate it myself, but failed. Now you're going to deal with the consequences.”
    Thanatos
  • “My sister, Lilith, was determined to bed the angel Yenrieth, but not if I could get to him first.”
  • “She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep.” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy the Vampire Layer.””
    Regan and Thanatos

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Regan Matthews was going to die.

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Chapters 1 - 41
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  • The Aegis: Society of human warriors dedicated to protecting the world from evil. See: Guardians, Regent, Sigil.
  • Agimortus: A trigger for the breaking of the Horsemen's Seals. An agimortus can be identified as a symbol engraved or branded upon the host person or object. Three kinds of agimorti have been identified, and may take the form of a person, an object, or an event.
  • Camborian: The human offspring of a parent under the possession of a demon at the time of conception. Camborians may or may not possess supernatural powers that vary in type and strength, depending on the species of demon inhabiting the body of the parent at the time of conception.
  • Daemonica: The demon bible and basis for dozens of demon religions. Its prophesies regarding the Apocalypse, should they come to pass, will ensure that the Four Horsemen fight on the side of evil.
  • Fallen Angel: Believed to be evil by most humans, fallen angels can be grouped into two categories: True Fallen and Unfallen. Unfallen angels have been cast from Heaven and are earthbound, living a life in which they are neither truly good nor truly evil. In this state, they can rarely, earn their way back into Heaven. Or they can choose to enter Sheoul, the demon realm, in order to complete their fall and become True Fallen, taking their places as demons at Satan's side.
  • Guardians: Warriors for The Aegis, trained in combat techniques, weapons, and magic. Upon induction into The Aegis, all Guardians are presented with an enchanted piece of jewelry bearing the Aegis shield, which, among other things, allows for night vision and the ability to see through demon invisibility enchantment.
  • Harrowgate: Vertical portals, invisible to humans, which demons use to travel between locations on Earth and Sheoul. A very few beings can summon their own personal Harrowgates.
  • Khote: An invisibility spell that allows the caster to move among humans without being seen or, usually, heard.
  • Marked Sentinel: A human charmed by angels and tasked with protecting a vital artifact. Sentinels are immortal and immune to harm. Only angels (fallen included) can injure or kill a Sentinel. Their existence is a closely guarded secret.
  • Quantamun: A state of superaccelerated existence on a plane that allows some supernatural beings to travel among humans. Humans, unaware of what moves within their world, appear frozen in time to those inside the quantamun. This differs from the khote in that the khote operates real time and is a spell rather than a plane of existence.
  • Regent: Head(s) of local Aegis cells.
  • Sheoul: Demon realm. Located deep in the bowls of the earth, accessible only by Harrowgates and hellmouths.
  • Sheoul-gra: A holding tank for demon souls. The place where demon souls go until they can be reborn or kept in torturous limbo.
  • Sheoulic: Universal demon language spoken by all, though many species speak their own language.
  • Sigil: Board of twelve humans known as Elders, who serve as the supreme leaders of The Aegis. Based in Berlin, they oversee all Aegis cells worldwide.
  • Ter'taceo: Demons who can pass as human, either because their species is naturally human in appearance or because they can shapeshift into human form.
  • Watchers: Individuals assigned to keep an eye on the Four Horsemen. As part of the agreement forged during the original negotiations between angels and demons that led to Ares, Reseph, Limos, and Thanatos being cursed to spearhead the Apocalypse, one Watcher is an angel, the other is a fallen angel. Neither Watchers may directly assist any Horseman's efforts to either start or stop Armageddon, but they can lend a hand behind the scenes. Doing so, however, may have them walking a fine line, that, to cross, could prove worse than fatal.
  • Horseman's Seal: Each Seal has two prophecies. Should the Horsemen protect their Seals from breaking until the prophecy laid out by the Bible comes to pass, they will save their souls--and mankind. But should they allow the Seals to be broken prematurely, as written in the Daemonica, the demon bible, they will turn evil, and will forever be known as Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death.
  • Deliverance: The dagger forged specifically to kill the Horsemen. It resembles a miniature sword with a horse head as the pommel. Its eye is a ruby. The dagger was forged in metals from a rock that fell from the sky and was tempered in hellhound blood.The Horsemen helped The Aegis forge it after they were cursed. "From death will come life" is engraved on the hilt.
  • Bludrexe: Sheoulic for "Blood King"
  • Hellhound: Describe this term.
  • Vampire
  • Daywalker: They all have the same tattoo on their neck.
  • Stang: A double-bladed S-shaped weapon that is an Aegis special; Each end is coated in a different metal intended to kill different species of demons; One end is gold, the other is silver.
  • Hellmouth: There are six hellmouths on Earth, passageways through which humans can enter Sheoul. Humans can enter without demonic assistance, but only if they are evil.
  • Spiny Hellrat
  • Ramreel Demon
  • Doppelgänger
  • Neethul Demon
  • Frost Demon: "Ice Troll"
  • Warg: Werewolf
  • Pricolici: Werewolves who are born as such. Pricolici can only concieve during the breeding heat, and offspring are almost always born werewolves, even if the father is varcolac. Pricolici are born with a mark that identifies them as pricolici. See: Varcolac
  • Varcolac: Werewolves who were once human, turned into wargs by the bite of another. Both born and turned werewolves can infect a human with lycanthropy. Offspring concieved outside the breeding heat are always born human. Offspring concieved during breeding heat are occasionally infected with lycanthropy in the womb and are born werewolves. See: Pricolici
  • Croucher Demon
  • Cruentus Demon
  • Seminus Demon
  • Gargantua Demon
  • Wormwood: A dagger The Aegis appropriated in the late 1300's
  • Bletouth: Demon religion
  • Torran: One of two bibles for the Bletouth religion
  • Toreign: One of two bibles for the Bletouth religion
  • Doom Star
  • Dhampires
  • Cambion: A child born of a demon-human union.
  • Treclan: A glowing spike that is effective only against angels, including fallen angels.
  • Null Demon
  • Wildlings: Daywalker vampires that are not part of Thanatos' clan.
  • Scorch Demon
  • Final Battle
  • Ghastbat
  • Memitim: Earthbound angels assigned to protect Primori. Memitim remain earthbound until they complete their duties, at which time they Ascend, earning their wings and entry into Heaven. Also known to demons as dresdiin.
  • Khnive Demon
  • Croix Viper
  • Moraki Demon
  • Soulshredder Demon
  • Silas Demon
  • Sora Demon
  • Heofon: Old English for "Heaven" - Kynan's charmed necklace; Is actually a little piece of Heaven
  • Slogthu Demon
  • Oni Demon
  • Griminions
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Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 3 of 5 in Lords of Deliverance. (standard series)

Preceded by Immortal Rider, and followed by Rogue Rider.

This is book 13 of 15 in Demonica World: Reading Order. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Larissa Ione (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 22, 2012
ISBN: 978-0446574501
Page Count: 464

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: n/a
  • Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Sexually Explicit Content, Violence, Language

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
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