A love story told as a horror story and a horror story told as a love story, Ashes to Angels is as raw and edgy as the hipster characters whose blended voices color much of the ink like a literary tattoo.

     Auryn, an angel, cuts off her wings – with scissors – in an ill-advised deal made with her demon twin sister looking for bail out of hell. Auryn falls out of the sky to earth, where she falls for Asher, failed artist.  This is the story of the evolution and dissolution – a vicarious nuclear catastrophe – of their bizarre relationship:  angel falls for atheist, poet steals from his own Muse, mortal rapes a supernatural, immortal commits suicide.

     As a paranormal dark romance, it makes subversive comment in poetic meditation on the impossibilities of love, the most lethal threat to human existence.