Elementals' Challenge

A love that's fated to go up in flames. Elementals' Challenge, Book 1 All her life, a faint memory of her parents and fire has glowed at the back of Rachel Quinn's mind. With her parents long dead, there is no one to clarify what it means. When a gorgeous winged man rescues her from a pack of werewolves, something flares to life inside Rachel. Suddenly she can see the paranormal world around her, a world unseen by mortals. And far more complicated. When Phoenix's massive orange-and-red wings erupt from his back, he knows his Challenge-an age-old battle against his Demonos counterpart-is upon him. Heeding Rachel's cry for help adds a layer of complexity never seen in any previous Challenge. Rachel, they discover, isn't entirely human. Like Phoenix, she commands fire. Fire calls to fire, and soon they are succumbing to a fierce attraction. As the Challenge bears down on them, though, Phoenix must discover what the Demonos has in store for mankind. If he doesn't succeed, the entire world will be swallowed up in darkness-and Rachel along with it.

One final Challenge looms. Two hearts carry the seed of victory…if they survive. Tremors and distant screams rattle Eliane awake in the dead of night, but they aren't coming from the ground. They're rumbling through her mind, triggering the supernatural connection between her and her best friend, Joao. A connection they've shared since they journeyed to Argentina as children-and came away with something that makes them more than human.Joao knows something disturbing has awakened his and Eliane's naguals-mysterious symbiotes they each carry inside them. One of the four Elementals has suffered defeat in their initial Challenge against their Demonos counterpart. When an Elemental is defeated, all four must fight in final Challenge. A battle in which he and Eliane have some part to play.Joao's first instinct, to protect Eliane at all costs, wars with their mutual promise to resist the attraction between them, at least while the symbiotes' power is untapped. But as attacks escalate, they begin to understand this Challenge isn't about who will have the power of life or death over mankind. Defeat will spell total destruction of all humanity, and time is running out on Joao and Eliane's one chance at forever.