Covet (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Jim Heron: "James" - construction worker turned fallen angel
• Vin diPietro: wealthy construction business owner
• Marie-Terese Boudreau: "Gretchen Capricio" - Prostitute that works at the Iron Mask
• Matthias the F**ker: head of black ops, Jim's old boss
• Adrian Vogel: "Ad" - Fallen angel
• Eddie Blackhawk: Fallen angel
• Nigel: English archangel
• Colin: English archangel
• Bertie: "Albert" - English archangel
• Byron: English archangel
• Tarquin: Bertie’s beloved Irish wolfhound
• Devina Avale: Vin's girlfriend
• Dog: Jim's stray dog. Has a limp
• Trez: Marie-Terese's boss, owner of the Iron Mask
• Robbie: Marie-Terese's son
• Mark Capricio: Marie-Terese's ex-husband; mobster
• Saul: Church member, has a secret
• Gina: Fellow prostitute at the Iron Mask
• Chuck: Jim's foreman at his job site
• Reinhardt: The jeweler
• Janice: Assistant at the jewelry store
• Tom: Add a description of this character.
• Mick
• Sarah

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• “Can you work your magic on this, Gramps?”

  Jim Heron

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• Death did that to a person, Vin thought. Stopped them in their place in the midst of the great tumble and scramble of their life, isolating them in still silence. In the instant it took hold, it changed everything, but its effect was like that of a car slamming into a wall—what was inside kept on going because the shit didn’t know better…with the result being utter chaos:

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• And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.”

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• a man wearing a Red Sox baseball cap settling on his knees in the far back.

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• Nobody ever said life was fun or easy or even fair, and sometimes you did things to survive that would seem utterly and completely incomprehensible to the home-and-hearth part of your brain. But there were no shortcuts in life and you had to pay for your mistakes. Always.

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• Seven deadly sins. Seven souls swayed by these sins. Seven people at a crossroads with a choice that must be made. You enter their lives and affect their path. If they choose righteousness over sin, we prevail.

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• Faith and hope and love…prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude…all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul’s innate desire for malignancy.

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• “I am Nigel. This rather acerbic fool”—the blond nodded at the dark-haired guy—“is Colin. Byron is our resident optimist and Albert is the dog lover.” “I go by Bertie to friends,” Mr. Canine said as he stroked the wolfhound’s ruff. “So, please, by all means. And this is the darling Tarquin.”

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• Funny thing about glass. When you broke the shit up, it got pissed and bit back.

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• Hieronymus Bosch helter-skelter—or worse, Dante’s stupid-ass Inferno crap. Honestly. Flames and tortured souls and everyone wailing.

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• Passion was sex with soul, and no matter how many times she’d made him come, only his body had been in it.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Caldwell, New York: Medium sized town in Upstate New York.
• North Lawn, Heaven
• Iron Mask: Nightclub
• New York
• St. Francis Hospital
• St. Patrick
• Manse of Souls: Castle in heaven for the life-lights of those who have proven themselves of good and fine nature during their time on Earth.

Organizations edit see section history

• The Four Lads: A group of four archangel's (Nigel, Colin, Bertie & Byron); The leader of the group is Nigel

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Followed by Crave.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. J. R. Ward (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

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Sexual Content

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Books › Romance

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• Deleted Scene: The 'last chapter'.

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