Angel Falling Softly
A novel by Eugene Woodbury
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Over the past six months, Rachel Forsythe's perfect life has descended from the ideal to the tragic. The younger of her two daughters is dying of cancer. Despite her standing as the wife of a respected Mormon bishop, neither God nor medical science has blessed her with a cure. Or has He?
Milada Daranyi, chief investment officer at Daranyi Enterprises International, has come to Utah to finalize the takeover of a Salt Lake City-based medical technology company. Bored with her downtown hotel accommodations, she rents a house in the Sandy suburbs.
And then the welcome wagon shows up. Her neighbors perceive her to be a beautiful, intelligent, and daunting young woman. But Rachel senses something about Milada that leads her in a completely different—and very dangerous—direction.
Rachel's suspicions are right: Milada is homo lamia. A vampire. Fallen. And possibly the only person in the world who can save Rachel's daughter. Uncovering Milada's secrets, Rachel becomes convinced that, as Milton writes, "all this good of evil shall produce."
As the two women push against every moral boundary in order to protect their families, the price of redemption will prove higher than either of them could have possibly imagined.
"What if I told you that one of the best Mormon novels ever written is a vampire story? Angel Falling Softly is proof positive that Mormon fiction is not dead. And even if it was, Woodbury has called it from its grave, bestowed it with immortality, and given it a mighty fine set of literary fangs."
—Stephen Carter, Sunstone magazine editor
"This tale of two women—one a vampire, the other a bishop's wife—is more than a good read. It is a provocative meditation on life and death that will leave readers both
satisfied and unnerved. It kept me reading, and it kept me guessing."
—Angela Hallstrom, author of the novel Bound on Earth
Trade paperback
224 pages
ISBN 978-0-9787971-6-4
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