title: Archangel's Blade (A Guild Hunter Novel)
author:  Nalini Singh 
description: &quot;In the intensely dark, violent, and romantic fourth Guild Hunter novel...Singh focuses on the 1,000-year-old vampire Dmitri, lieutenant to the archangel Raphael, and Guild Hunter Honor, still recovering after a rogue vampire kidnapped and tortured her for two months...a heart-pounding and strongly emotional read.&quot; - <i>Publishers Weekly</i>
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  “Aral the jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero:
  damaged, cynical, and despondent, yet needing only the right cause to rise
  from his own ashes.”
  
  
  —Alex Bledsoe, author of _Wake of the Bloody Angel_ __
  
  
  Praise for the Fallen Blade novels
  
  
  BLADE REFORGED
  
  
  “Once again Aral and his Shade, Triss, find themselves in the middle of a
  royal mess—literally. Yet this time it is assassin versus assassin versus
  assassin. That alone promises readers some high-quality entertainment. But
  Kelly McCullough adds several twists, backbends, and handsprings that only a
  mind as devious (or demented) as his could possibly conceive.”
  
  
  — _Huntress Book Reviews_
  
  
  CROSSED BLADES
  
  
  “Kelly McCullough has once again written a magnificent story which deals with
  love, betrayal, and redemption.”
  
  
  — _Fresh Fiction_
  
  
  “If you are seeking a fantasy unlike most others, you will not go wrong by
  choosing any title by this 