Apocalypse Rising Book 1: Descendant
By Mychael Black
Caeli, the realm between Heaven and Earth
Mikhail grimaced at the images in the cloudy mirror. Andrew Blackwell. The young man wasn’t quite what Mikhail had hoped to find. Then again, after the last world war nearly wiped humanity off the map, there wasn’t much left of belief and hope. Society struggled on, people merely surviving.
Mikhail grunted as he observed the young man’s life in flashes—the death of Andrew’s parents; the emotionless trysts with nameless men; the casual, almost routine, sidestep to avoid the bag-lady he passed every day.
This was their savior?
“Why me?” Mikhail grumbled.
“Aside from a direct order?”
Mikhail tried to ignore the man in the doorway. “I have Caeli. Why send me down to fetch such a prime exampl
