Beauty Awakened (2013) (edit title/settings)

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• Koldo: Warrior Angel; One of the top five members of Zacharel's outcast army; Is very tall and very muscled with sun-drenched skin, golden eyes, a thick black beard tied by three crystal beads and a bald head; He had thick, long black hair that hung down his back in multiple braids with intricate beadworkwoven throughout, but he sacrificed it to save another; His glittering white and amber wings were ripped out at an early age, too early to heal and grow them back; His shoulders, back and legs are tattooed with crimson feathers; Can teleport (flash) from one place to another
• Nicola Lane: "Co Co" - Human born with a defective heart; Laila's identical twin; Is two minutes older; 23 years old; Has long strawberry hair, gray eyes and skin as pale as porcelain; Is five-two and a half
• Laila Lane: "La La" - Human born with a defective heart; Nicola's identical twin; Is two minutes younger; 23 years old; Has bleached blonde hair and gray eyes; Is currently comatose; A grzech demon has wormed its way inside her body and is killing her
• Robby Lane: Nicola & Leila's younger brother; A redheaded little boy; 6 years old; Was killed by a drunk driver along with their parents
• Kerry Lane: Nicola, Leila & Robby's mother; A redheaded; Was killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver
• Zacharel: "Zachie" - "Winged Wonder" - "Ice" - Warrior Angel; Annabelle's mate; Leader of the 'Army of Disgrace', his fate is tied to theirs if they cannot be redeemed; Has black hair and piercing emerald eyes; Is six-five with wide shoulders and a superb muscle mass; Has majestic golden wings; Is 1,000's of years old
• Annabelle Miller: "Anna" - Immortal (Her life span is tied to Zacharel's); Zacharel's mate; 22 years old; Is five-nine; Has long, straight blue-black hair and uptilted, rich amber eye; Since she now holds angelic essentia she sprouts pure white wings when she is overwhelmed with positive emotions
• Axel: Warrior Angel; Member of Zacharel's outcast army; Jamila's replacement in the top five ranks; Is 1,000's of years old; Has shaggy black hair and electric blue eyes; Has the ability to find anyone, anywhere at any given moment
• Lysander: Zacharel's former leader; Leads an army of Sent Ones; Bianka's mate & consort; Has magnificent golden wings; Is tall, muscled and brawny with pale rosy skin, golden hair and navy eyes
• Thane: Warrior Angel; Zacharel's second-in-command; Xerxes & Bjorn's best friend; Has curly, golden hair, sapphire eyes and tanned skin; His wings are pure white broken up by dazzling gold; Was once held captive in hell and tortured along with Xerxes & Bjorn
• Xerxes: Warrior Angel; One of the top five members of Zacharel's Army; Thane & Bjorn's best friend; Has long white hair he keeps pulled back in a jeweled torque, colorless skin with scars in sets of three and red eyes; Was once held captive in hell and tortured along with Thane & Bjorn; Before his torture he had auburn hair, peach-tinted skin and amber eyes
• Bjorn: Angel Warrior; One of the top five members of Zacharel's Army; Thane & Xerxes' best friend; A brute of a man with bronzed skin veined in gold; Has dark hair and glittering, multihued eyes of purple, pink, blue and green; His white wings are veined with the gold; Was once held captive in hell and tortured along with Thane & Xerxes
• Malcolm: Warrior Angel; Member of Zacharel's outcast army; Magnus' brother; Looks to be of Asian descent; Has dark hair dyed green at the ends, the strands sticking out in a single spike along the center of his head; Has eyes so pale they are almost white and bones tattooed on his neck; His white wings are laced with gold
• Magnus: Warrior Angel; Member of Zacharel's outcast army; Malcolm's brother; Looks to be of Asian descent; Is six- eight and three hundred pounds of muscle; Is as serious and clean-cut as any human businessman
• Jamila Engill: A new hire in Nicola's department at Estellä Industries; A beautiful woman with a fall of jet-black curls and chocolate eyes; Is tall, slender and black
• Charlotte: Warrior Angel; One of five women in Zacharel's outcast army; A lovely brunette with bold features and dusky skin
• Elandra: Warrior Angel; One of five women in Zacharel's outcast army; The shy one of the group; Is very beautiful and reminds you of a living diamond; Her long white hair, her silver eyes and her pale skin all sparkle
• Malak: Warrior Angel; One of five women in Zacharel's outcast army; Has a large round scar in the center of her forehead, probably from an injury she received when she was too young to regenerate; Has bright green with thick bangs to hide her scar
• Ronen: Warrior Angel; One of five women in Zacharel's outcast army; A black-haired vixen with an addiction to popcorn
• William: "William The Ever Randy" - "Liam" (ONLY by Gilly) - "Willy" - "William of the Dark" - "William the Naughty Boy Toy" - Sex-addicted immortal warrior; Anya's best friend; Lucifer's half-brother; Hades' son; Has jet-black hair and electric-blue eyes; Is six-foot-eight and muscled with a treasure map tattoo leading to his man junk; Can see dead people; Used to rule purgatory until he escaped; Father of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Is in love with Gilly though he doesn't act on it
• Maleah: Once a Sent One, now a human; Was the most decorated soldier in their realm of the skies; Then, one day, she fell and no one knew why or what happened; Looks like a Goth princess; Has white skin, long white hair with a thick sweep of bangs, big blue eyes and multiple tattoos and piercings; A computer whiz
• Brendon: Warrior Angel; Member of Lysander's army
• Kane: One of the Lords of the Underworld; Keeper of Disaster; Has brown, black and golden longish hair with hazel eyes; Is trapped in hell with demon minions loyal to his demon Disaster and wanting his "seed"
• Cario: A woman of questionable origins; Tries to visit The Downfall to see Xerxes; Can read minds; Is strong with chin-length platinum hair, hard features and leanley cut muscle
• McCadden: Fallen Sent One; Entrusted to the Angel Warriors for safe keeping; He dyed his pale hair pink, tattooed bloody teardrops under his eyes and added silver piercings to his brows
• The Most High: The higher power the One, True Deity answers to; His word is law
• Germanus: "One, True Deity" - King of the Sent Ones; Leader of the Elite Seven; He looks as innocent and frail as an old human, with deeply lined skin, silver hair and shaky hands.
• Clerici: Sent One; Is said to be fair, just and driven to succeed; He looks to be 20 years old; Has brown hair, brown eyes and an unassuming face; Has a certain magnetism, a gleam of...love, shining brightly in the dark depths of his eyes; Is without wings
• Andrian: Angel; One of the Elite Seven; Has golden wings; Leads an army of Sent Ones
• Gabek: Angel; One of the Elite Seven; Has golden wings; Leads an army of Sent Ones
• Shalilah: Angel; One of the Elite Seven; Has golden wings; Leads an army of Sent Ones
• Luanne: Angel; One of the Elite Seven; Has golden wings; Leads an army of Sent Ones
• Svana: Angel; One of the Elite Seven; Has golden wings; Leads an army of Sent Ones
• Ivar: One of the Deity's Elite Seven; Koldo's former commander; A warrior of unimaginable strength and ability; Was killed by humans
• Dominicus: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Isabella: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Adeodatus: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Christa: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Benedictus: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Katherina: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Kafziel: A member of the Heavenly High Council; Has silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin
• Blaine: Nicola's co-worker; Is five-nine with blue eyes
• Sirena Kegan: A new hire in Nicola's department at Estellä Industries; Is five-three or four; Has long, straight blonde hair and her eyes are as wide as a doll's, a mix of brown and blue; Wears a pair of horn-rimmed glasses perched on her nose
• Dexter Turner: "Dex" - Nicola's co-worker; Has asked Nicola out several times; Has a full head of dark hair and brown eyes that are puppy-dog sweet
• Dr. Carter: Leila's doctor at County General; Has dark hair, dark eyes, and his skin is beautifully black
• Lakeysha: Hairstylist at Teaze; A gorgeous black girl
• Kendra: Phoenix; Thane's lover; Has gold and scarlet hair and green eyes; Has thin chains (slave bands) forged by an immortal blacksmith encaseing her wrists and ankles
• Cornelia: Angel; Koldo's mother; Looks so innocent and sweet; Is beautiful with long dark brown hair streaked with gold, pale lavender eyes and freckles around her nose; Her wings are glittering white feathers cushioned by plush, amber down
• Nox: Nefas; Koldo's father; A huge, bald man with black eyes, lots of muscles and scars
• Lefty: Demon; A top-of-the-line grzech, and all about sickness; Has dark pupilless eyes, a single horn protruding from the center of his forehead and crimson scales rather than flesh
• Righty: Demon; A top-of-the-line paura, and all about fear; Has dark pupilless eyes, two thick horns rising from his scalp and dark, matted fur
• Lucifer: "Prince of Darkness" - "Luci" - The devil; Ruler of hell; William's half brother; Hades' son
• Mr. Ritter: Nicola's boss at Y and R Organic Market; Is five-eight with sandy-colored hair, hazel eyes and olive-toned skin; Is very skeevy
• Hades: "Shadow Man" - Keeper of Sheol; High Lord of the Underworld; William & Lucifer's father; Can turn to mist and shadows; Has black wings with fire running through them, long jet-black hair and eyes of pure black with no pupils evident in a handsome face; Is a massive man with huge muscles and what appears to be tiny stars tattooed all over his chest

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• “In a world of darkness, the smallest light is a beacon.”

• “I got stuck with the only winged warrior with ADD.”

  Koldo

• “Be as shrewd as a serpent yet as harmless as a dove.”

  Germanus

• “I wanted to live," she said. Really live. "I wanted to travel the world, jump from airplanes, dance on top of a skyscraper, deep sea dive for treasure and pet an elephant.”

  Nicola Lane

• “If there's one thing I've learned throughout the years, it's that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.”

  Koldo

• “A man will do just about anything to survive, boy.”

  Nox

• “No humans are to be harmed.”

  Zacharel

• “He was the light in the darkness. The harbor in the storm. The hope she needed in the middle of the war.”

  Nicola Lane

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Heaven
• Wichita, Kansas
• South Africa
• River of Life
• Hell
• West India Quay: An area on the Isle of Dogs in Docklands, London, England
• County General
• The Downfall: A pleasure house in the Deity's section of the heavens; Owned by Thane
• Y and R Organic Market: Market where Nicola works as a cahier
• Panama
• Chiriquí Province: in Panama
• Teaze: A salon and dance club on earth that caters to immortals.
• Tartarus: Immortal prison on Mount Olympus
• Sierra Nevada Mountains
• New York
• The Highlands
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Auckland, New Zealand
• Kodiak: A fancy steak house
• River of Death

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• Zacharel's Army: "Army of Disgrace" - An army of twenty angels no one else wants under their command. The rebellious ones. The tortured ones. 'Sent Ones' who are in danger of damnation; Zacharel must teach them the respect that he himself has yet to demonstrate— for the Deity, for the sanctity of human life. And to ensure that he takes his responsibility seriously, he alone will bear the consequences of his warriors' actions. If any of his angels kill a human, he will suffer a whipping. (Koldo, Axel, Thane, Xerxes, Bjorn, Malcolm, Magnus, Jamila, Charlotte, Elandra, Malak and Ronen)
• Elite Seven: Angels that were created rather than born; They have golden wings; There are four males and three females; Zacharel, Lysander, Andrian, Gabek, Shalilah, Luanne, Svana—and each of those seven leads an army of Sent Ones.
• Estellä Industries: Company where Nicola works as an accountant
• Heavenly High Council: Consists of seven council members, four males and three females; Each appears to be at the end of a human life; These beings have silver hair and heavily wrinkled skin. Even still, they are supremely powerful. (Dominicus, Isabella, Adeodatus, Christa, Benedictus, Katherina and Kafziel)
• Lords of the Underworld: Exiled immortal warriors to the Greek gods who now house demons inside them; To be separated from their demons would be to die.
• Titans: Current rulers of Olympus; Immortals who consider themselves rulers of the entire world

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• Warrior Angels: Heavenly demon assassins; They have white wings threaded with gold
• Sent Ones: Elite warrior angels; Look just like angels, but they aren't actually angels; They are the adopted children of the Most High, their lives tethered to His. He is the source of their power, the essence of their very existence. Like humans, Sent Ones battle the desires of the flesh. They experience lust, greed, envy, rage, pride, hate, despair.
• Angels: Angels, in actuality, are servants and messengers of the Most High. They experience no desires of the flesh (lust, greed, envy, rage, pride, hate, despair).
• Demons: There are many different types of demons, and they come in all different shapes and sizes.
• Viha: A type of demon
• Paura: A type of demon
• Násilí: A type of demon
• Slecht: A type of demon
• Grzech: A type of demon
• Pică: A type of demon
• Envexa: A type of demon
• X-Ray Vision: The ability to see inside a person
• Water of Life: Is taken from the River of Life that flows within the Deity's temple. A powerful liquid capable of repairing the most damaged human flesh. To even approach the shoreline of the River of Life one must suffer and make a sacrifice.
• Nefas: The most dangerous, vile race in existence. A race that sneaks up on humans, poisons slowly, painfully...destroying utterly. A race without a conscience. A race just like the demons. The Nefas are death dealers. Soul suckers.
• Harpy: Describe this term.
• Phoenix: They are blood-hungry and cruel, deriving glee from destruction. They live and thrive in fire and can cause the dead to rise from their graves- and those that rise are then bound to serve them, enslaved for the rest of eternity.
• Vampire
• Shifter
• Fae
• Joy-Bringers: They have pure white wings
• Nephilim: The offspring of fallen angels and human females; They were horrible creatures filled with hate and driven by greed. They were giants, savages, brutal... The Nephilim were wiped out—at least for a little while.
• Essentia: A substance that swirls inside of an angels body, sometimes seeping through the pores of their hands to become a fine powder, allowing them to claim any object they consider their exclusive property. Demons produce a similar substance, only theirs is tainted.
• Serps: A type of demon; Furry snakes with antlers

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Preceded by Wicked Nights.

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1. Gena Showalter (Author)

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• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
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• Gena Showalter: Author's website

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