Wicked Nights by Gena Showalter (Angels of the Dark series)
Gena Showalter is leveraging on the success of her long-running Lords of the Underworld (LOTU) series to launch a new paranormal romance series entitled Angels of the Dark. Wicked Nights, the first book in the new series brings us a hero that LOTU fans will have first met in The Darkest Secret. The ruthless and cold angel Zacharel finally gets his own book in Wicked Nights, and as the book begins, Zacharel’s in danger of losing his angel-hood. His ruthlessness and disregard for human life in his fight against demons has put his existence in jeopardy, and he has just one last chance to redeem himself by leading a group equally ruthless angels to demonstrate that they can, in fact, care more for humans. It’s a tough assignment for Zacharel, at least until he comes across Annabelle Miller restrained tightly to a gurney in an asylum for the criminally insane, unable to defend herself against the demons that are about to devour her. Annabelle allegedly murdered her family and has been incarcerated at the asylum for the past four years. She’s innocent, but no one will believe her when she tells them demons were responsible for the deaths. No one (bar Zacharel) believes her when she says that she’s been fending off demons at the asylum for the past four years, only to find herself at Zacharel’s mercy this time around. Fortunately, Zacharel and his band of angels rescue her and free her from the asylum, and Zacharel finds that after closing himself off from emotion for over a century, all it takes is Annabelle to make him start caring again.