
Daniel further reveals that he is a fallen angel, which explains his immortality. Later, Luce finds Daniel on a roof top, and he reveals that they are the boy and girl from his graphic novel story. Daniel rescues an unconscious Luce from the fire. Another mysterious fire breaks out it engulfs the library and kills Todd. As Penn leaves to retrieve the photo from the printer, Luce sees the "shadows" again. Penn and her friend Todd sneak into the library with Luce and search the computer with a facial recognition tool they discover a photo from 1854 of Daniel and Luce, and Luce again has a flash of memory, seeing herself and Daniel posing for the photo in 1854. In the story a boy and a girl are in love with each other, but are cursed such that each time they kiss, the girl dies she then reincarnates, meets the boy (who never ages or changes) 17 years later, and they fall in love and kiss again, only for the cycle to repeat endlessly every 17 years.Ĭam takes Luce to a club on her birthday and they kiss, only to be violently interrupted by Daniel, who yells that he had told Cam to stay away from Luce, and accuses him of still being “with Lucifer.” Luce flees and tells Penn what happened, confiding that she suspects Cam and she have been reincarnated.

They walk together and he admits that during class he was working on a graphic novel. The two realize that Luce is listening to them, and Daniel follows Luce outside. She expresses fear for Luce because she is unbaptized. Luce overhears Miss Sophia telling Daniel that Cam may have been behind the angel statue almost falling on Luce.

As Luce leaves, she sees the “shadows” again. Molly shows up and proceeds to harass and almost kill Luce before Arriane intervenes. At the party, Luce is attracted to Cam, but can not shake the feeling of a deep and unusual connection to Daniel, despite his attempts to brush her off. Later, Cam flirts with Luce before inviting her to a party in the woods. During a session, the school psychiatrist tells Lucinda she can leave if she takes antipsychotics.ĭuring detention, picking up trash, Luce is almost crushed by a falling statue of an avenging angel. She also meets Miss Sophia, a religious studies teacher.

Upon arriving at her new school, Luce meets various students, including Cameron “Cam” Briel, who has taken an interest in her Arriane Alter, who takes Luce under her wing Molly Zane, who harasses Luce Pennyweather "Penn” Van Syckle-Lockwood, who befriends Luce and Daniel Grigori, a brooding boy to whom Luce is instantly attracted. Luce feels cursed, blaming herself for Trevor’s death. Lucinda Luce Price is sent to Sword and Cross Academy for troubled young teens after she is blamed for the death of a boy named Trevor who perishes in a fire started by mysterious shadows that Luce sees after kissing him.
