Shadowhunter - Nephilim Quest, #1

"A stunning and magical debut novel! I have never read anything like it!"mybookwormblogger.comDana's world falls apart. Her best friend Kitty dies in a strange car accidentand then a nightmarish shadow appears to hunt her. She has to flee withher grandma, who turns out to be something quite unexpected - a Huntressof Shadows. The truth about her ancestry is a hard thing to accept - Dana was deliberatelycreated to find something that should stay hidden, or it might threaten the worldas Dana knows it.
Her existence is tied to the myth of the Nephilim, thedescendants of angels, and her creator commands the forces of chaos anddarkness, the source of all horror myths of humankind. Dana learns there is aworld of terrifying shadows, afterlife, dreams and time travel surrounding thephysical world, hidden behind a thin veil - and there are ways to enter it. Dana has no option - nightmarish creatures from ancient myths hunt her andthe hunt can only end in either Dana and everyone she loves being capturedand turned dark, or Dana finding what she was created to find. Her hunters have skills no ordinary human can escape - but Dana is not anordinary human.
Nor is Daniel, the leader of a hidden Center fighting thedarkness. Together with a chosen team they could travel the Unseen Worlds, into the past, following a clue written down in ancient Egypt, and walk the Trailof Angels to find the hidden mystery before the dark creatures do. Dana must prepare for a long search in another time and place, while bothshe and Daniel are wanted and hunted by the darkness.
At stake is her love, and the destiny of the human kind. But can they make it with the shadowsclosing down on them?The first book of the Nephilim Quest series plunges the reader into an ancient mystery of the origins of the Nephilim, the offspring of the angels who took human wives. In print this book is 586 pages.