Broken Chains

She can sense when death is near. He's the angel who used to collect you.

Fifteen years as a Boston paramedic taught Emma Walsh how to handle trauma. But her secret "death-sense"—a supernatural ability to feel the exact countdown of a patient’s life—taught her how to filter out the impossible.

Until she works a Code Blue where the patient's countdown hits zero... but his soul refuses to leave.

Someone in Boston is binding souls to their own corpses, building a functional, intelligent army of the dead. When Emma's unique abilities intercept one of these necromantic bindings, she attracts the attention of the only being capable of stopping the architect: Azrael.

He used to be the Angel of Death. Eight hundred years ago, he gave up his wings to experience mortality. Now, he's a member of the Fallen Response Unit and the oldest angel to ever walk on Earth.

To stop the city from falling to an undead army, they have to work together. But as Emma's powers are inexplicably amplified by Azrael's proximity, she begins absorbing his ancient, devastating memories through a single touch. 

Worse still, it isn't just magic tying them together. Amidst the chaos of the hunt, Emma and Azrael realize the impossible: they are falling deeply in love, tethered by an ancient, undeniable angelic bond that neither of them expected.

With a brilliant necromancer hunting Emma to weaponize her abilities, the lines between life, death, and an immortal love begin to blur. Azrael gave up Heaven to understand mortality... but protecting the woman he loves might cost him everything he has left.