The reluctant angel...Foul-mouthed, sharp-tongued, and salty Captain Cutlass left her broken youth behind to sail the seas and ended up in the hells. Just as her shattered heart began to heal, she sacrificed herself for the only man she'd ever loved-and found herself in the heavens, searching for meaning in her ascension and failing to find it. Restless and inexplicably unhappy among her angelic hosts, she jumps at the chance to return to her hometown of Hollis. But the reappearance of Captain Cutlass doesn't go unnoticed. Assassins hide in the seaside streets, and danger drips from every eave. Will she finally find what she's searched for in the place she ran from so many years ago?
The resigned assassin...Sharpe never wanted to be in Hollis to begin with, but as an assassin with the Philosophers guild, he had little choice but to follow orders. Against all the odds and despite everything he ever told himself about love, he fell for a beguiling, brown-eyed pirate-in Hell's desolate deserts of all places. She never knew the true depths of his feelings for her, and she'd never know the pain he felt when she left him behind in Hell, ripping his heart out and taking it with her to Heaven. Convinced he'd never see her again, Sharpe survived Hell and returned to his duties. Without her, the guild was all he had. When he's assigned to track down and capture her, will he choose his guild or his angel?