Dark Angel [Hardcover]

The fourth book in L.J. Smith’s beloved bestselling Night World series is now available as a special collector’s edition!

On a cold winter day Gillian Lennow almost dies…but she is saved by an angel. His hair is golden. His eyes are as violet as her own. And when Gillian comes back from her near-death experience, he comes to her. An invisible guardian that only Gillian can see, Angel whispers the secrets of popularity in her ear. Overnight, the once-shy Gillian becomes a sensation and David, the boy she has loved for years, finally notices her.

But then Angel begins to make bizarre demands, drawing Gillian into a world of risk and dark excitement. At last, she has to face the terrifying question: Who is Angel? What has he brought back from the Other Side? And can she and David find out his secret before it’s too late?Dark Angel

Chapter 1

Gillian Lennox didn’t mean to die that day.

She was mad, though. Mad because she had missed her ride home from school, and because she was cold, and because it was two weeks before Christmas and she was very, very lonely.

She walked by the side of the empty road, which was about as winding and hilly as every other country road in southwestern Pennsylvania, and viciously kicked offending clumps of snow out of her way.

It was a rotten day. The sky was dull and the snow looked tired. And Amy Nowick, who should have been waiting after Gillian cleaned up her studio art project, had already driven away—with her new boyfriend.

Sure, it must have been an honest mistake. And she wasn’t jealous of Amy, she wasn’t, even though one week ago they had both been sixteen and never been kissed.

Gillian just wanted to get home.

That was when she heard the crying.

She stopped, looked arounlsA