Torment

  Torment takes place in sunny California. Luce transfers from Sword & Cross to a new school called Shoreline. The only problem is that her parents, who are back in Georgia, don't know that she's there. Luce can't tell her parents because she just found out some news that will change her life forever. Luce finds out that the boy, Daniel, who she fell very in love with just by looking at him is actually an Angel who fell in love with Luce centuries ago and has now cursed him and Luce to lives filled of heart break and sorrow. Since Daniel has fallen in love with a mortal he was removed from his respectably high place in Heaven and has fallen with the rest of the angles who wish not to follow the rules in Heaven. The only thing is that after the fall, angels are still free to choose if they want to be good or bad and Daniel chooses the good side.


   Even though Daniel is still on the good side he still has a curse on his shoulders. The curse is that every seventeen years him and Luce meet and fall in love with each other but after they have their first kiss Luce miraculously burst up into flames and dies leaving Daniel there all alone to mourn for her. After that happens he has to wait another seventeen years until him and Luce meet again only Luce will have been reincarnated as a different girl, living in a different environment, with a different family and even a different culture speaking a different language. But yet, somehow, Daniel and Luce always find each other.


   When Luce shows up at Shoreline she thinks that it is the most beautiful thing that she's ever seen. She is also amazed at how laid back every body is and that most  of her classes are outside in the sun and that there is a shocking truth  to shoreline that some of the students there are Nephlium which are basically angels in training. Some of the students are immortals and the others are hybrids, half mortal half immortal, with watered down powers. Her roommate, Shelby, is a hybrid and is at first mean to Luce because she has never had to share anything with anyone since she is an only child, but she soon learns to love Luce and they soon become friends.


   Luce then figures out that the shadows that have been haunting her ever since she was seven are actually called the Announcers and that she is able to travel back in time through the Announcers to get glimpses of her past lives. Every time she wants to summon an Announcer she goes into the woods behind Shoreline and tries to glimpse her past lives. The first time she failed, but the second time she was successful with the help of her two friends, Shelby and Miles, who likes Luce and has shown her that more than once. When Luce finally knows how to travel back in time through the Announcers she is determined to find out what had happened, exactly, when Daniel first fell in love with her and, if so, how can she break this curse and live a happy, non confusing, normal life.


   In the end Luce travels back in time, alone, to find out more about her past selves and possibly break the cruse that Daniel conflicted upon her and him. Daniel tries to stop her because it isn't safe for her, since her parents aren't very religious she never got baptized. Therefor, if she dies in this lifetime it will be for good