Memoir of a Death Angel

MEMOIR OF A DEATH ANGEL is the coming-of-age storyof Persephone Matepas a mortal who's destined through ancestrallineage to transform into a winged angel of death. Her whole familyis being stalked by an extremist Greek Orthodox sect whose darkmission is to kill nascent death angels and thus-by their twisted reasoning-save humanity by banishing mortality altogether.A modern fantasy which mixes orthodoxy with the supernaturalthe formal with the irreverent pure love with obsessive lustcompliance with rebellion and questions whether one's fate is trulyinescapable. A wild but guided journey made possible by an authorfamiliar with both sides of the River Styx.The sense of place is palpable the narrative situations absorbingthe main character Persephone compelling and complex.Magical realism at its best.-Sara Pritchard author of HELP WANTED: FEMALEOh my. The audacity of genius. Anagnost has done forDeath Angels what Bram Stoker did for vampires. Beautifully writtenterrifying and knock-down glorious. -Robert P. Arthur authorof HYMN TO THE CHESAPEAKEA magical evocation of a Greek-American childhood.Haunting ... at times terrifying.-David Poyer author of THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALEMyth Magic Medicine and one extraordinary female hero... a wild not-to-be-missed descent to the underworld.-Lenore Hart author of THE RAVEN'S BRIDE