Jovah's Angel

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Jovah's Angel is a 1998 science fiction novel by Sharon Shinn. It is the second book in the Samaria series of novels.

All is not well in Samaria...

Great storms are sweeping the land, the deserts flood, and the skies rain down death and destruction. As they have always, the people turn to the angels for help. Yet even their splendid voices, raised in supplication, cannot seem to reach the god Jovah...

Then the proud and beautiful Archangel Delilah falls victim to the rage of the wind, as she is torn from the sky, her wing broken. She can no longer soar in the heavens, guiding and guarding those below. She can no longer be first among the angels.

Though Jovah's anger blows all about them, the oracles must still consult him to choose a new Archangel. His choice - Alleluia, a solitary scholar. Her fate, in turn, may well depend on the mortal Caleb, a man who believes only in science - and himself.