"The wings were mine." Amazon bestselling author Alivia Anders' Illumine Series has captivated the world from page one. Now, readers can experience the first two books complied into one action-packed volume. Illumine When Essallie Hanley is offered up for a demonic sacrifice at the hands of her young-seeking boyfriend, the last thing she expects to happen is for fire to explode off her skin. Suddenly, Essallie's world expands to reveal the hidden fabric of the supernatural, and with Kayden, the demon sent to kill her by her side, they soon learn just how life-changing some secrets can be....

Every action comes with a price. Let the flames begin. For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can to pretend she's like every other normal girl in High School. Only Essallie is far from normal. Able to conjure blue fire and a shimmering silhouette of wings from her body, she seeks the only known solace left to her name; her first home in Belfast, Maine. But she soon realizes that her return home is only the beginning of a long and twisted...

Some secrets are dangerous to keep. Some secrets are too dangerous to tell. Essallie Hanley just wishes her life could go back to normal. But what's normal when you carry the burden of knowing you're a half-angel created for war, that the only person who can help you is a demon still waiting to kill you, and that your only chance for salvation rested in a boy who died in front of you? If Essallie had turned her back on everything she'd learned, she could have made the most of her fractured life. That is, until Kayden told her that she's a ticking time-bomb; that at any given moment her blood...