Lately strange happenings begin to plague the everyday suburban life of 12-year-old Vero Leland. To the surprise of his classmates and himself, while running track and field, Vero effortlessly clears two hurdles in one leap. He sees hideous frightening creatures that no one else can see. But it's when he views his imprint after making a snow angel that he can no longer deny he's different. Because after sweeping his limbs across the fresh snow, there in the snowy depression lays the impression of two massive wings so beautiful Michelangelo could have fashioned them himself

Only...

Just because thirteen-year-old Vero Leland has discovered his true identity doesn't mean his life has gotten any easier. Middle school is humiliating at best, and his training in the Ether--the spiritual realm that surrounds the earth--has only intensified. Becoming a guardian angel, the fiercest of all warriors, is not for the faint of heart.

At any moment, Vero could be yanked from earth to the Ether, where he must face whatever trials come his way in angel school, aka C.A.N.D.L.E. (the Cathedral of Angels for Novice Development, Learning, and Edification). This year, Vero and his...

Everything Vero has trained for in the Ether has led to this. In the third and final book of Laurice E. Molinari's Ether series, the young guardian angel Vero is given the quest of locating the Book of Raziel--which was lost when Adam was forced to leave the Garden of Eden. And not even Raziel himself knows where the book is now. It soon becomes clear, however, that Lucifer is intent on finding the book for his own means.

When the C.A.N.D.L.E. library in the Ether is missing the information he needs, Vero, his sister, and his best friend, Tack, discover the clues to the book's...