The Beacon — Cara Crescent

When the Original comes, she'll come to thee as three: The Beacon burning bright. The Shadow hidden from sight. The blighted, damned Knight. James Pasquino has failed as a man, as a priest, and as a daemon, but he has one last shot at redemption â€" succeed on a mission to prevent Armageddon. But who would've known protecting one woman would prove so difficult? Or so tempting. Haunted by a mysterious and powerful evil entity, Lilith Caldwell has always had to live on the fringes of life. So when she comes home for the first time in twenty years and the entity disappears, she's ecstatic â€"not even the provoking daemon residing in her childhood house can dampen her enthusiasm. James is one sexy predicament, and she has every intention of pursuing him, daemon or not. For the first time in her life, she thinks things are falling into place…until she realizes the entity she'd thought had gone was only lying in wait, biding its time until she was at her most vulnerable. When she needs them most, the coven she left long ago offers her one final chance to return as their high priestess and gain the power to defeat her enemies. The cost? The life of her daemon. Can James protect Lilith and find redemption in the heart and soul of one single witch? Will Lilith take her chances and leave the coven to face the enemy without her full power, or will she choose to end the life of the arrogant, sexy daemon, who stole her heart?