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When Gage Jordan's uncle dies inside a magic circle, and his cousin Jeff can't communicate, no one has the answers. Was Gage's uncle trying to protect Jeff, or was he working black magic? Some claim there's a generational curse while others whisper about demonic possession. The only thing Gage knows for sure is they're in danger. Demons are prowling the Vermont countryside, hunting for him and Jeff as the souls who got away. Gage's father can't help, and he's forbidden Gage to talk to the only person who might know how to save them. His only protection is one of the threads God uses to hold together the world, given to him by two strange creatures that couldn't explain more. The trouble is, this thread doesn't come with a user manual, and while Gage struggles to figure it out, there's a life debt to be paid-and both boys are running out of time.

Gabriel and the other Archangels of the Presence have a new assignment: guard the Messiah through his childhood and ministry. Gabriel still struggles to synthesize the lessons for his year as a man, but he carries the shame of his punishment with him into his relations with the other angels. When created beings kill the Son of God, mortal enemies suddenly become allies while close friends become enemies, and Gabriel finds himself on the battle field of a war he never wanted to fight.

A midwife has a chance to right a seventy-year-old wrong. Tessa delivers babies at night and raises five sons by day. When an angel appears after a birth and asks for help on a quest, her first response is, "Angels don't even exist," followed by a swift, "No." Even after he proves he exists (and lets her call him Martin) she wants nothing to do with his quest: Martin wants to find a relic stolen at the end of World War II, when the town of Barlassina was torched and its church destroyed. The relic went into the pocket of a long-dead soldier and hasn't been seen since. Without the relic, the church won't be rebuilt; without the church, Barlassina will die. It's been gone for eight decades, but Martin senses the relic is about to be "birthed back into time." He wants Tessa there when it happens. There's only one chance to make it right, and he's desperate. Tessa's family comes from that town, but really? Still no. When a bill threatens to end midwifery in Massachusetts, Tessa offers Martin a deal: she'll hunt for the relic if he'll help kill that legislation. An unlikely team, they start sifting through the past and the present, the lives of soldiers and the deaths of innocents, guilty consciences and a few consciences that aren't nearly guilty enough. The further they delve into the mystery, though, the more obvious it becomes that there's more to Martin's story. And the key to uncovering the relic may lie in whatever it is he's trying to keep hidden. Jane Lebak writes novels about angels, smart women, and smart women dealing with angels. Relic of His Heart has all three in spades, in a rousing triumph of love, persistence, and the many ways the present encounters the past.