Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility.Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmates tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family homeand Meridians body explodes in pain. Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that shes a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunts house in Revelation, Colorado. Its there that she learns that she is a Fenestrathe half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.From the Hardcover edition.