Desireé Lewis knows your emotions by the smell in the air, and whether you’re a gargoyle or shapeshifter by your aura’s color. Driven by guilt from her mother’s brutal murder, and the need to understand why she has unique abilities, Desireé founds Coordination of Paranormal Entities to help others who are different. Unable to have a real relationship because her father abandoned her when she was eight, work is her life.
A PI for paranormal species, Desireé investigates a serial killer who kills shapeshifters, when she is blindsided by Aesh, the ill-tempered Dark Angel of Justice, her guardian angel. If he keeps her safe and slaughters the serial killer, he’ll gain his father's, Gabriel’s, favor, redeemed, ruling The Heavens. She makes a deal with Aesh, promising to go to The Underworld and convince Aesh’s mother, Aeshema to stop matchmaking by convincing her they’re in love. In return, Aesh gives Desireé information about her mother – turns out she was a guardian angel who broke the rules, fell in love with her charge, lost her powers, gave birth and had her wings ripped out of her back.
Are they truly in love? Can they track down the serial killer?
Laurel Young writes a sexy paranormal with ENTANGLED DESTINY. Desiree is a human who can detect the otherworldly creatures that live among us. What makes her a talented and highly paid private detective is her synesthesic ability to detect emotions by smell. She’s hired to investigate a series of murders and ends up over her head. Fortunately, Desire has someone watching her back, Aesh, the Dark Angel of Justice. Desiree is his assignment. If he fails—if she dies or he makes the monumental mistake of falling in love with her—he blows his last chance at proving himself worthy of a seat beside his father, the Angel Gabriel himself. It took me a while to get used to Young’s unusual use of third person present, but the read is fast paced and tension filled. Paranormal lovers will dig this one. Solid 4.5