title: And Falling, Fly (A Harrowing Novel)
author:  Skyler White 
description: White's debut is a trippy urban fantasy, an esoteric battle between myth and science told in floods of evocative prose. Olivia, a fallen angel cursed to eternity without pain or pleasure, feeds on the blood of those who desire or fear her. Dominic is her polar opposite, a skeptical scientist explaining away the paranormal as mental illness. He immerses himself in neuroscience to seek a cure through selective memory removal; haunted by images of his past lives, he begins experimenting on himself. Looking for research subjects, Dominic finds Olivia. She longs to be set free by love and returned to heaven, but at what price? Reeking of blood and sex, the swaths of atmospheric text sometimes overwhelm the story. Despite the story's enormous plot holes, longtime paranormal fans will appreciate White's willingness to take chances and try something new. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  **WHERE THE
  
  
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  **David
  
  
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  ALSO BY DAVID LEVIEN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  City of the Sun
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Wormwood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swagbelly: A Novel for Today’s Gentleman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To Brian Koppelman,_
  
  
  
  
  
  _a great friend_
  
  
  
  
  
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  The morning was gray, and a cool that wouldn’t last.
  
  
  Frank Behr steered his Toronado across East Prospect and appreciated the empty
  
  
  streets at 5:45 A.M. His neck still throbbed from a guillotine choke he had
  
  
  barely escaped a day ago, and he was having trouble turning his head to the
  
  
  left, but at this hour the city was his. He had a jump on the world, and that
  
  
  felt good. As he drove, he tried to leave his mind distant and unfocused.
  
  
  Better not to dwell on the soft bed he’d just left, or on the physical
  
  
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  Pummeling, clinches, fire feet and sprawl drills,
  
  
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