In the sequel to City of Gods and Monsters, Loren Calla and Darien Cassel have settled back into their familiar routines, relieved that the chaos of Kalendae—and everything leading up to it—is finally behind them. Or so they think.

But trouble finds Loren once again when the Terran Imperator forces her into working for him. The catch? He expects her to wield magic she no longer seems to have. To keep Darien and the rest of the Devils safe, she agrees to his demands. But the secrets she’s forced to keep—along with her growing entanglement with the imperator’s son—threaten to pull her away from Darien in ways she may never recover from.

Meanwhile, as the heir to Randal Slade’s legacy, Darien wants nothing to do with the throne his father once ruled from—but Angelthene has other ideas. When the Magical Protections Unit recruits him to help dismantle the illegal arms trade his father was involved in, Darien is left with no choice but to claim his place at the top of the Darkslayers. But holding that power means facing ruthless competitors who will kill to take it from him. As he digs deeper into the shadows his father left behind, friends become enemies, enemies become allies, and Darien finds himself pulled so far into Angelthene’s dark underworld that he’s unsure if he’ll ever escape. Worse still, he begins seeing creatures no one else can, and he can’t shake the fear that he’s losing his mind.

Return to Angelthene in City of Souls and Sinners, an intense, action-packed story that explores love and loss, light and darkness, and the thin, dangerous line between good and evil—especially when you can no longer tell them apart.

Warning: This book contains mature themes that may not be suitable for all readers, including violence, strong language, explicit sexual content, drug abuse and addiction, bullying, domestic violence, child abuse (depicted in flashbacks), sexual harassment, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and discussions of suicide.