title: Redemption: The Angel of Death Book 1
author:  Scott Meador 
description: Originally from Guin, Alabama, Scott Meador attended the University of Alabama. He formerly worked for the University of Alabama Police Department, the Guin volunteer Fire Department and was an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician in the U.S. Army. He currently lives in Tyler, Texas with his wife Belinda, their daughter McKenna, his Stepdaughter Madison, and his Stepson Mathew.
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  For Andrew and Stuart
  
  **Prologue**
  
  Everyone does it. Dies, I mean. I found this out for myself on my seventeenth
  birthday when I was killed in a freak car accident on my prom night. But it
  was no accident. It was a carefully planned scything, just a small moment in
  the battle between light reapers and dark, heaven and hell, choice and fate.
  Only I didn’t check out of my life like most dead people do. Thanks to a
  mistake, I’m stuck, dead on earth. The angel who failed to protect me and the
  amulet I stole from my killer are the only things keeping me from ending up
  where the dark reapers wanted me to be. Dead, that is.
  
  My name is Madison Avery, and I’m here to tell you that there’s more out there
  than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I’m seeing it, hearing it, touching
  it, living it. **Chapter One**
  
  I leaned my shoulder against a rough boulder and fumed. Dappled sunlight
  shifted upon my sneakers as the wind made my hair ti