<P>The Circle's job was to protect the innocent.</P><P>But what happens when the innocent aren't exactly what they seem?</P><P>What happens when they become the Nine?</p><P>Gabriel can't bring himself to look at me. Broken wings. Broken will.</P><P>Titus lays in a hospital bed with the vultures hovering close. </p><P>Rival stands beside me...but he may as well be on the other side of the world for all the lies that divide us.</P><P>They killed my family.</p><P>They tortured those I love.</P><P>I won't wait for death to come for Titus.</P><P>I'll become the monster they feared and hunt them down.</p><P>The Nine tremble at the sight of my father Lucifer?</P><P>They haven't met me yet.</P><P><I>Contains mature themes.</I></P>