Books with author Sophia Stafford

For centuries, Azrael’s sole purpose was to find her—and kill her. And now he has her, just down the hall to be exact! So beautiful and fragile, she is so close he can almost hear her precious blood pumping through her veins. Blood he has been hunting for since the day he fell. His mind is screaming, “Kill her. Stick to the plan, drain her blood, and ascend to Heaven.” But every fibre of his soul refuses to harm her. If he won’t kill her, what will he do with the beautiful Lilliah Daniels? He smirks. He might be an Angel, but he’s never claimed to be a saint.

The love of her life wants to kill her.She should be walking away from him. Screw walking, she should be sprinting! Her mind screams at her to go, but her body, her heart, and some sick part of her soul that thrives on danger demands she stay. He’s wanted to kill her before and she had survived. She looks into Azrael’s cold, red eyes, so different to the clear blue ones she came to love. The question remains: Can she save him? And if she can’t, can she bring herself to kill him?

Book 3Lilliah was gone, dead. And he had been the one to kill her.The Devil had made him his puppet, forcing him to do the unthinkable. Now Azrael was left with the devastation and a world crumbling around him.With Lucifer’s army getting stronger, now wasn’t the time to mourn. Now was the time to fight.He’d once again go up against Lucifer, this time finishing what Lilliah started.Then, somehow, after it was all over, he’d get her back

Your magic was meant to hold our world together, yet here you are, tearing it apart.”“I didn’t ask for it. I don’t even want it.”“Yet its yours all the same.”Jaycen Reece’s new life was falling to pieces. From the election tearing the magical government apart to the dead bodies stacking up, all bearing the mark of her father. It was all going wrong. And now with her own magic under fire, Jaycen must make a choice that will affect everyone she has come to love. With a power she didn’t ask for, and responsibility she didn’t want, Jaycen must use both to save the life she’s carefully built. Was it possible to save everyone, or even just herself?

“Magic could be your saviour, or your destruction. The choice is yours.” Being knocked down by a stranger after stealing a dress was not how most discovered they were a Witch, but it was how Jaycen Reece found out.Now she was moving across the country to attend a school for others like her, leaving her mother alone to chase a man that was never coming back.And when a student at Jaycen’s new school ends up murdered, followed quickly by another, Jaycen soon finds herself in a world where different rules apply, and where the blood running through your veins really is everything.Magic could save or destroy alright, but which path she takes is now up to her.

"Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible." --Saturday Review "Hard to match . . . for subtlety and understanding. . . written wittily, lucidly, and with great respect for the resources of the language. "--New Yorker Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.