City Of
Nancy Holder
Season 1
For Angel, life as a vampire was a constant thrill. Power, danger, cool clothes (never getting old, also a plus). But in the end, it was all about the kill — until he killed the wrong girl.
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Angel’s first true love, but the relationship was doomed from the start — a moment of true happiness would cause Angel to lose his soul forever. So he left — Sunnydale, Buffy, and everything else meaningful to him.
    He came to Los Angeles. City of Angels. Run by powerful forces, agents of pure evil. It’s a city hard on its human population. If Angel wants to save himself, he’s going to have to save them… somehow. With the help of two unlikely allies — a half-demon and a ex-May Queen — he’s going to set up shop…
    And keep watch over his city.

Not Forgotten
Yvonne Navarro
Season 1
A crime wave has swept the Los Angeles area, which under normal circumstances would be par for the course. But nothing links these particular victims except the cause of death — their bodies were burned from the inside out. Obviously supernatural forces are at work.
    While Angel investigates the murders, Cordelia tracks down a band of child pickpockets. Surprisingly, both searches lead to the same place: a wealthy slumlord who has all but imprisoned the children’s immigrant parents.
    And conducts elaborate rituals to Laturna, the Indonesian God of the Dead.
    Angel, Doyle, and Cordelia may have had a rocky start in L.A., but they realize they’ve got it much easier than the immigrants. Characteristically, Angel wants to help. But can he free them before the Feast of Laturna? And if not, will they become the next sacrifices of someone’s quest for immortality?

Redemption
Mel Odom
Season 1
When their investigation agency books a walk-in client, Angel, Cordelia, and Doyle couldn’t be happier. Whitney Tyler is a beautiful, widely adored actress who plays a vampire on a popular television series. Trouble is, a cult of viewers seems to think she’s a real vampire, and had made attempts on her life.
    Cordelia has got stars in her eyes now that she’s rubbing elbows with Hollywood’s elite, and Doyle’s just relieved to have signed on a case that didn’t start with a vision — and a blinding migraine. But when Angel lays eyes on Whitney, he’s astounded — she’s the spitting image of a young woman warrior whom he encountered during his early days as the scourge of Europe.
    As the attempts on Whitney’s life continue, the trio uncovers a symbol that links the perpetrators to an ancient cadre sworn to battle creatures of the night. But what could connect Whitney to someone that Angel once knew — almost two centuries ago?

Close to the Ground
Jeff Mariotte
Season 1
Greed. Fear. Anger. All, technically, human emotions. But Angel’s a demon, not a saint, and he’s not immune to human emotions. So when big-shot Hollywood studio head Jack Willitts offers him huge sums of cash in exchange for guarding his overprivileged daughter, Karinna, the Dark Avenger takes the gig. After all, as Cordy and Doyle point out eagerly — there’s rent to pay. And Willitts can certainly foot the bill.
    After accompanying Karinna to several trendy nightspots, Angel writes her off as a spoiled brat. Cordy thinks Angel’s too personally involved in the case, but the situation is worse than they suspect. Karinna’s in trouble and suddenly Angel and company are being pursued by an unidentifiable creature, bent on destroying everything between it and what it wants most in the world.
    Before long, Angel finds himself trapped within a supernatural struggle for power, fame… and immortality.

Shakedown
Don DeBrandt
Season 1
Angel has long since learned that earthquakes are usually not benign incidents, so when Doyle has a vision involving a seismic shift, everyone’s guard goes up. Further investigation leads Angel to a group of Serpentene demons living locally as an affluent private community.     These nouveau “monsters” are not evil in any way (other than the fact that they make their living as telemarketers) and have no discernible enemies — so why, then, have they become the target of a clan of underground quake demons — demons who have the ability to reduce living creatures to a pulverized mass in an instant?
    Cordelia and Doyle are not sure the clients — demon, albeit high-paying, that they are — can truly be trusted. But Angel finds that he has much in common with this particular brand of outsiders. After all, as he knows, there are degrees of evil and of innocence alike…

Hollywood Noir
Jeff Mariotte
Season 1
At a Hollywood construction site, a decayed corpse is the harbinger of a supernatural evil, while at Angel Investigations, Doyle’s latest vision leads him to a puzzling address. He, Angel, and Cordelia start tracking down the real McCoy: a cigarette girl named Betty McCoy. But they’re not the only ones to do so. There’s a new PI in town — Mike Slade — who dresses and acts as though entrenched in the era when lounge singers, swing dancing, and martinis first made the Hollywood night scene. The golden age of the silver screen. Tinseltown.
    Still, Mike’s agenda is thoroughly modern — he has a long-standing bone to pick with local officials. Now Angel and his team find that their research leads them directly to Slade, and some files that are strictly L.A. confidential. But what do a cigarette girl, a water commissioner, and a slew of disappearing demons have in common?

Avatar
John Passarella
Season 1
When Angel arrived in Los Angeles, he assumed he’d find enough evil to keep himself busy for, well… eternity. Up until now, he’s had his hands full in real time. So when Cordelia suggests starting up a Web site for their detective agency, he’s hesitant. As Doyle puts it, “People in trouble want to interface with a face.”
    Soon, though, the police discover a trail of desiccated corpses stretching across the city. The only thing that bind these victims (other than the cause of death) is their pastime pursuit: online chatting. One by one, they are being hunted by a techno-savvy demon. And when the monster has claimed his final victim, he will have completed a ritual that extends the arm of his evil far beyond the reach of even the Internet…

Soul Trade
Tom Sniegoski
Season 1
Of any creature to walk the earth, Angel understands — perhaps better than most — the fragility of the soul. For others, the soul is the essence of humanity. But for Angel, his propels him toward the acts of humanity that may ultimately be his salvation.
    He never thought people would pay for a soul.
    In Los Angeles, where everything’s for sale, Doyle, Cordelia, and Angel discover a young girl whose soul has been literally taken from her, and they realize that the soul trade has hit the black market. A soul is now a commodity among the gamblers, junkies, and gangsters of the underworld, and the soul of an innocent child is the hottest item in town. That is, until Angel appears on the scene, and the inside traders realize that there’s a soul out there even more unique than they had ever dared to dream…

Bruja
Mel Odom
Season 1
Los Angeles is stunned when a priest is attacked by a woman who confesses to having murdered her own son. At the same time, Angel Investigations turns up reports of a madwoman floating in and out of gang fights, playgrounds, and flophouses populated by teen runaways… she’s everywhere. She is a bruja — a witch, and the embodiment of La Llorona — the “Weeping Woman” of Spanish lore. In any place she alights, a trail of death lingers.
    The priest soon lapses into a coma, but Angel and company have their hands full with other matters: Doyle is wracked with a vision of a young mother and her son in danger, out by the docks. Meanwhile, Cordy is busy searching for a big-shot producer’s missing wife. The trio is running out of time. Angel has to find a possible connection between the wife who’s gone MIA and the mother on the docks before he himself is stopped — by a phantom whose mere touch brings death itself…

The Summoned
Cameron Dokey
Season 1
Doyle is in the supermarket when the latest vision hits. Fear. Fire. Death. And an ornately engraved ancient amulet. As usual, the Powers That Be are none too specific. When he comes to, he is being tended by an anxious young woman named Terri Miller.
    A shy girl from a small town, Terri is new to L.A., and feeling like a wallflower in the bright lights of this big city. Soon after her encounter with Doyle, who heads off without more than a perfunctory thank-you, a charismatic young man invites her to a meeting for a club to which he belongs.
    Meanwhile, Angel and his gang have been turned on to a killer who burns his victims beyond recognition. Several of the deceased have connections to Terri’s newfound circle of friends, and Cordelia suddenly finds herself in possession of an amulet that looks awfully familiar…

Haunted
Jeff Mariotte
Season 2
Cordelia’s getting her first big break — as a contestant on yet another twist on “reality programming.” The catch? She has to spend five days and four nights in a so-called haunted house. Not a problem for a girl who lives with a ghost and works with a vampire (and even managed to graduate from Sunnydale High School in one piece). She’s a shoo-in.
    But there may be more going on behind the scenes than Cordy anticipated. On her first night, she’s wracked with a vision — and it’s one of the applicants who didn’t make the final cut. Through subtle on-air clue-dropping, she manages to communicate the scenario to Angel and Co., who are instantly on the case. But as Angel, Wesley, and Gunn seek the missing actress, paranormal activity in the house heats up. Once Wolfram and Hart is added to the mix, Cordelia has to wonder which she would rather hold onto — her ticket to certain stardom… or her life…

Image
Mel Odom
Season 2
Cordelia has a vision of a young child being attacked by a squid-like demon at the same time that Gunn is rescuing a young artist whose studio has been attacked by vampires. When Cordelia goes to investigate the mansion of her vision, she finds herself surrounded by baby products, portraits… and chased by a many-tentacled monster.
    When Angel arrives on the scene, he’s shocked to discover that he recognizes some of the subjects of the portraits. Distant memories of a night spent with storytellers Mary and Percy Shelley recall an artist Darla, his long-time paramour and partner in crime, once favoured. But can that artist still be alive today?
    An ancient evil is using a painting to keep its body alive and intact, and in the meantime is preying on a child. In the process of saving the child, Cordelia, Angel, Gunn, and Wesley are going to learn — the hard way — that looks aren’t everything.

Stranger to the Sun
Jeff Mariotte
Season 2
When Wesley opens a package that arrives special delivery, he is instantly sent into a coma-like slumber. It’s obvious he has fallen victim to a spell, and Angel sets off with Gunn to get to the bottom of things. But everyone in a position to assist — magick-shop owners and even traditional authorities like policemen — have also been hit by the supernatural sandman.
    Cordelia, meanwhile, is on research duty, which is harder without Wes around. Some of his colleagues have clued her in to a plot — vampire, natch — to plunge the Earth into constant darkness, so that they might reassert their power without fear of daylight. She wants to help prevent this, but while she tends to Wesley it becomes clear that he is in the throes of a terrifying nightmare. If she can’t rouse him, it may be the end — for him, as well as the rest of humankind…

Vengeance
Scott Ciencin & Dan Jolley
Season 2
Los Angeles is a city divided between the haves and the have-nots, and those that have it seem to have it all: tanned good looks, fit physiques, celebrity, flashy cars, high-tech toys, and then some.
It’s no wonder, then, that the have-nots easily tire of standing on the side-lines.
    Enter Lily Pierce, a motivational speaker whose New Life Foundation is sweeping the country. Her mantra is simple: “Erase doubt. Erase fear. Become pure of purpose. Perfect in execution. Attain your dreams.”
    Cordelia is unimpressed by Lily’s spiel, but she never expected that the self-help guru is guarding a secret of mythic proportions. Even Wolfram and Hart want to stop the insanity — and incredibly, they’re looking to Angel for help. But is Lily’s promise of a perfect world too tempting for Angel to conquer?

Endangered Species
Nancy Holder & Jeff Mariotte
Season 3
Cordelia Chase is accustomed to being rocked by visions of horror courtesy of the Powers That Be. But she is particularly disturbed to be visited with the image of someone she knows: Faith, the rogue Slayer who is being stalked in prison by the supernatural. The picture becomes clearer when Chaz Escobar, a onetime game hunter, arrives at Angel Investigations. He explains that he is searching for his wife, Marianna, a vampire. He had been working on the cure for her vampirism on a small, distant island — but she escaped. He suspects her for being the monster harassing Faith.
    When Faith is magically sprung from jail — straight into Marianna’s clutches — Angel’s team and Chaz are off to the island preserve to save her. If Chaz’s goal is to rid the world of vampires — even those with a soul — would this be Angel’s chance to right all his past wrongs? Can the cosmic scales be balanced if Angel allows Chaz to continue his research, even it means Angel’s death?

The Longest Night
Various
Season 3
December — sure, ’tis the season and all that, but evil generally isn’t up for a holiday. And December 21 — well, that’s usually the winter solstice.
A.K.A. the longest night of the year.
    It’s easy enough to see why this night would practically be the undead’s New Year’s Eve, which means, visions or no, it’s a crunch time for Angel Investigations.
    Now, in the first-ever Angel short story collection, follow our gang hour by hour, evil by evil. From twilight to daylight, Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn and Fred have to keep the forces of darkness at bay — even when black magick has a head start…

Impressions
Doranna Durgin
Season 3
An otherwise peaceful day at Angel Investigations is disturbed by the arrival of a desperate man — and the demon at his heels. The gang quickly disposes of the monster, only to find that it decomposes the instant it dies, leaving them with little by way of identifying characteristics. The man is of no help, as he’s fallen victim to a stolen identity scam; he’s been wooed by a false Angel and is consequently distrustful of the real deal. And he’s certainly not going to give up the ancient stone he’s pocketed.
    Angel’s freaked by the thought of his very own impersonator — and Cordy’s quick to point out all the more worthy celebrities residing in the greater L.A. vicinity — but he doesn’t have time to reflect on the weirdness of the situation. Lorne’s reporting some majorly bad mojo over at Caritas that needs handling. But what-ever’s getting under all the local demons’ skin seems to be affecting Angel as well. Will the real Dark Avenger please stand up?

Sanctuary
Jeff Mariotte
Season 3
Angel and Co. are enjoying a rare moment of relaxation at the karaoke bar Caritas when a loud explosion draws the gang — and the rest of the bar’s patrons — outside. A building across the way is on fire, but the conflagration is nothing more than a diversionary tactic to distract people from a drive-by shooting! And when the smoke clears, Fred is missing.
    It’s obvious she’s been kidnapped, so Angel, Lorne, Cordy, Wes, and Gunn set about questioning everyone within the immediate radius. At least ten demons were direct eyewitnesses. One problem, though: Each tells a different story of what he, she, or it saw. It could have been gang warfare — monster style — or Fred could have wandered home without saying good-bye. One thing quickly becomes clear: Demons don’t make for the most reliable sources…

Fearless
Doranna Durgin
Season 3
The gang at Angel Investigations is well versed in the nuances of demon fighting. So they’re surprised to find themselves euphorically giddy after a long night of… what? Their clothes are torn and bloody and their bodies are battered, but their memories of the previous evening are hazy at best. Research determines that they’ve been doused with demon pixie dust that helps them to heal.
    Angel, however, is having the opposite post-battle experience. After years of superhuman healing, he’s suddenly recovering from a fight with the resilience — or lack thereof — of an average human being. Shaken and reluctant to confide in his friends, Angel is reduced to secret-keeping and collaboration with newfound demon cohorts. If the gang goes in search of their next fix of fearless, will Angel be strong enough to protect them?

Solitary Man
Jeff Mariotte
Season 4
Widow Mildred Finster is a life-long fan of “cosy” mystery novels. She decides at the tender age of seventy-one that she’d like to become a real private detective. She finds a card for Angel Investigations and thinks the name sounds very sweet. After all, she loves angels. What could be more perfect?
    Angel and the gang are hip-deep in their own personal problems, so when Mildred offers her services, they don’t have much time for her. And when a truckload of antiquities from a local mission is stolen, they don’t get too worked up over what they think is a simple theft. But the arrival of some ruthless killers from overseas finally gets the gang’s attention.
    Now they are being followed at every turn by a well-meaning old lady, fighting off attacks from poltergeists, and trying to set their personal differences aside to defeat a supernatural foe before a centuries-old mystery reaches its final chapter.

Nemesis
Scott & Denise Ciencin
Season 4
When an old friend from graduate school contacts Fred for help with her job at a top scientific facility, Fred feels a mixture of dread about renewing ties to her past and wistfulness for the quiet life she might have led entrenched in her research. But the night they are supposed to meet, her friend is gunned down, the seemingly innocent victim of a mob hit gone wrong. Fred is inconsolable.
    Although Angel and the others want to help, they have been called upon to solve a rash of murders among a group of wizards. These wizards are the only ones preventing an apocalyptic breach of the walls separating our reality from other, more-deadly worlds. Fred decides to leave the investigation and take her friend’s place as a researcher in order to uncover the truth behind her murder. But when the worlds of scientific research and the supernatural collide, Fred may be the only one who can solve the case and stop the coming apocalypse.

Dark Mirror
Craig Shaw Gardener
Season 4
In his two-plus centuries on Earth, Angel’s seen his share of imitators: kindly, misguided people intrigued by the exotic business of being a P.I.; not-so-kindly misguided people drawn to the lure of the undead unlife. But so far he’s not encountered a clone — a true double.
    Enter Angel, the Second. And Fred 2.0. And Wesley Redux… A steady parade of perfect doubles arrives at Angel Investigations, but they’re not looking for help. They want the original humans (and vampire) dead. And if Angel, Lorne, and their friends can’t band together to figure out where the clones are coming from, a murder spree that starts in their lobby might spread to the entire city. But how do you defeat someone who knows your every thought, your every battle plan, your darkest fear? How can Angel defeat himself?

Monolith
John Passarella
Season 4
Like any parent, Angel really wants to understand his son, Connor, but it’s hard when life keeps getting in the way. Angel’s overworked, Connor’s embarrassed by his dad’s taste for blood, and there are Hyconian demons running rampant through the streets of L.A. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for bonding, especially when a gigantic monolith suddenly appears on Hollywood Boulevard.
    Nobody knows what to think of the massive rock with two demon faces carved into its exterior. The news stations think it’s an elaborate publicity stunt for a recently released movie, and religious extremists call it a sign of impending apocalypse. As Angel Investigations struggles to understand what the rock’s appearance means, it becomes clear that Connor and Angel will have to work together in order to survive.

Book of the Dead
Ashley McConnell
Season 4
Wes has been a compulsive reader since childhood. It’s an addiction like any other — he craves books, loves them, can’t live without them. So when his former colleague Adrian O’Flaherty comes to town and invites Wes along to a highly secret auction of rare occult books, Wes can’t say no.
    What Wes doesn’t know is that Adrian is looking for more than dusty old tomes at the auction. He’s out for revenge. Before the Watchers Council was destroyed, a man named Rutherford Circe stole a number of rare books from the council’s libraries — and killed the librarian, Adrian’s father, in the process.
    At the auction, Wes buys a box of old books that holds one of the most famous books of magick ever collected. The Red Compendium is known for totally absorbing its readers — and Wes, always a sucker for compelling literature, couldn’t put it down if he wanted to.

Love and Death
Jeff Mariotte
Season 4
Incited by an outspoken radio host named Mac Lindley, hordes of monster killers have descended upon the Los Angeles area. They’re out to rid the city of the demons that have overrun it, and they’ll stop at nothing less than destroying every last one of these demonic creatures — as quickly and as bloodily as possible.
    But to Angel Investigations, these angry mobs are more of a hindrance than a help. At first they know nothing of the invasion; Cordy’s heard bits and pieces, but everyone’s investigative attentions are turned to solving the case of a family, new to L.A. from Iowa, who’ve been murdered together as Angel raced to try to save them.
    But then Lorne is attacked and Connor disappears, and Angel realizes that these demon hunters don’t know the difference between a demon who’s on the side of good and one who’s just out for blood. None of them is safe from this rabid pack of do-gooders… not even the vampire with a soul….

Cursed
Mel Odom
Season 3
Sulking around the Slayer in Sunnydale, the vampire Spike has often run into demons intent on punishing him for throwing in with the White Hats. But when there are hints of a more organized campaign dedicated to vanquishing the vampire with a chip in his head, Spike sets off on the trail of whoever’s put a hit out on him.
    Meanwhile, in the City of Angels, the vampire with a soul finds that the search for a mystical object is tied to his days as the vicious Angelus. Then Spike — his former partner in carnage — arrives in L.A. Each nursing a grudge, and with the specter of Buffy in both of their (cold, dead) hearts, the two vampires reluctantly work together… until their torturous past catches up with them!

Monster Island
Christopher Golden & Thomas E. Sniegoski
Season 3
Since he arrived in Los Angeles, Angel’s mission has been to help the helpless. He has saved countless innocents in his city. However, one escaped his grasp: Doyle, the half-demon who came to Angel on a vision quest. Doyle sacrificed himself and in turn reconciled his internal conflict toward his own demonic heritage, leaving Angel and Cordelia to carry on with the good fight. And fight they do.
    But as the group squares off against evil in the City of Angels, little do they know that back in Sunnydale, trouble is brewing. A shakedown of snitches yields info: Someone other than Buffy has been slaying — and whoever it is, he or she is strictly after half-breeds, going so far as to lie in wait to attack. It doesn’t add up, and the Scoobies are stumped.
    But back in L.A. the picture becomes clearer when Angel Investigations is visited by an unexpected guest…

Seven Crows
John Vornholt
Season 4
One crow sorrow, Two crows mirth, Three crows a wedding, Four crows a birth, Five crows silver, Six crows gold, Seven crows a secret, Which must never be told…
    In a sleepy little town on the border between Arizona and Mexico, Agent Riley Finn and his operative wife, Sam, have tracked down an international smuggling ring involving vampires. Surprisingly the call for reinforcements is answered by Buffy Summers and the atoning vampire Angel.
    Now tempers are flaring in the heat of the day — and night — as people are dying and locals are turning a blind eye to the deadly events. Bodies are turning up in the surrounding desert, some drained of blood, some having succumbed to another, fast-moving death. Riley Finn is noticing the arrival of more and more crows to this area, ominous portents of the events ahead. But even Mr. Secret Agent Man is distracted from his job when his wife goes undercover with Angel…

Heat
Nancy Holder
Season 4
Buffy and Angel both battle the same ancient evil, a Possessor who was once Qin, First Emperor of China. As a Possessor, Qin’s body loses its temperature fast and he is forced to jump from body to body through the ages, rendering him immortal.
    In present day Sunnydale and Los Angeles, Qin is attempting to usher in the Year of the Hot Devil and drive humans out of his dimension by resurrecting an ancient dragon frozen in ice from centuries before.