When Angels Walk Among Us, What Do They Want From Us?
What if angels are not distant, flawless beings—but broken, yearning, and dangerously close to human desire?
That question hums beneath every page of Angels on Earth by Steven Lundquist, a bold and unsettling collection of interconnected stories that refuses to treat heaven as a safe place and love as a gentle force. This is not a book about halos and mercy. It is a book about consequences.
Set across eras and continents—from rain-soaked streets of 1890s Bucharest to Depression-era Texas, from the Spanish Steps of Rome to the far edge of the world—Angels on Earth asks one relentless question: What happens when divine beings fall in love with human suffering?
Lundquist writes with a voice that is lyrical, ferocious, and unafraid to stare into moral darkness. His angels bleed. His humans dream dangerously. Love is never abstract—it is physical, consuming, and often catastrophic. In one story, a love potion meant for a monstrous Count binds the wrong souls together, unleashing devotion that defies heaven itself. In another, a young woman’s dreams blur into reality as she is drawn toward infamous outlaws and cosmic judgment. Elsewhere, grief drives a man to crawl—literally—toward heaven, step by painful step, daring God to notice him.
A darkly lyrical meditation on love, faith, and rebellion, Angels on Earth by Steven Lundquist dares to ask what happens when heaven’s messengers fall fatally in love with humanity.
This collection will speak powerfully to readers who crave literary speculative fiction, dark romantic mythology, and philosophical explorations of faith, free will, and desire. Fans of morally complex storytelling—where beauty and brutality coexist—will recognize a writer who trusts his audience to sit with discomfort and ask hard questions.
Will you dare to find out what an angel is willing to sacrifice to love you?
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