Hell on Earth. That's what it's like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts -- immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students : Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.