A Visitation of Angels pulled me in and under with swift precision. Slater McEachern has been charged with the grisly murder of an unarmed woman. But this is not Slater McEachern’s story. Elizabeth Maslow – already an outcast in Mission, Alabama – has dreamed of Slater’s innocence and is determined to speak for him.
Mission is a small town of narrow minds and prejudices which doesn’t allow diversity in any guise. And Elizabeth is anything but non-diverse. Although unwed, she has dared give birth to a daughter without remorse or apology to anyone. Worse, the child has webbed hands and feet. The inhabitants of Mission believe Callie to be a child of evil. Elizabeth believes Callie was conceived with an angel.
As they race to identify the real killer, Raissa and Reginald must determine if either belief is true. Or if, perhaps, both are true. For Lucifer was also an angel. The premise of the book, ultimately, is the struggle for supremacy between that which is bright and good and that which is dark and evil. It is a premise that is laid out in a series of breath-taking twists and turns, scenes that will keep your heart pounding and your feet on shifting sand. And though I warn you to read with the lights on, I must also warn that the grip of the story will linger long after sunrise.