Crimson Tides (Paperback)

Paperback · 6 x 9 in · 503 pages · printed on demand and shipped direct to you. Also available as an eBook.

The river remembers every name.

She Fell from Heaven 673 years ago. He's the detective who makes her wish she'd found Earth sooner.

The Mississippi is running red, and NOPD Detective Jake Morrison is the only cop in New Orleans who can see why. For fifteen years he has hidden his supernatural sight behind his badge. He solves the cases no one else can solve and tells himself that carrying the weight alone is the price of the gift.

Then the ward system protecting the city starts failing, and bodies drained of blood appear at ancient anchor points. The woman who walks into his crime scene is tall, fierce-eyed, and radiating an authority his sight reads as divine. Seraphina is the Angel of Judgment, 673 years Fallen, and she has never been in love.

The bond forming between them is more than attraction. It is rewriting them both: she gains his mercy, he gains her certainty, and neither of them asked for it. But the rare book dealer Jake has trusted for six years has been watching, and Jake carries a secret dark enough to shatter everything they are building if her judgment finds it first.

Perfect for readers of J.R. Ward's Fallen Angels series, Nalini Singh's Archangel of Sins, and Anne Bishop.

You'll devour this if you want:

• A 673-year-old angel who has never been in love, and the detective who sees her
• He falls first, she falls harder
• Forced proximity and a bond that transforms both of them
• A villain who spent six years earning their trust
• New Orleans as a character: jazz funerals, chicory coffee, Mardi Gras masks, and the Mississippi running red

The Fallen Response Unit, Book 3. Standalone HEA; richest after Books 1–2. Dual POV. Open-door explicit. Heat: 4 of 5. On-page consensual bondage.

Reading order. The first Fallen Response Unit series is six books and complete. Each book stands on its own except Enduring Light, which finishes the story Rising Storm begins.

Tropes: fallen-angel romance · angel/human · forced proximity · he falls first · fated bond · dual POV · New Orleans setting · patient villain · consensual bondage · soundtrack-companion.

Content warnings: violence, blood magic, emotional manipulation, a past vigilante killing (morally complex), consensual bondage, near-death experiences, children in danger (referenced, not graphic).