Disappear: Into Shadow

Ferns writes Disappear: Into Shadow by drawing on the ancient inter-testamental Book of Enoch. This text describes the Watchers, angels who descended to Earth and shared forbidden knowledge with humanity. Their union with human wives produced hybrid offspring, prompting Heaven to send a flood to cleanse the earth. The narrative picks up millennia later, following Azrael, an Archangel of Death who has become an outcast rebel. She is wanted by both Heaven and Hell for her defiance. Azrael oversees the cycles of life and death on Earth. She believes eternal damnation is stagnation and that souls must reincarnate to grow. Along with her choir of outcasts, she secretly guides souls, smuggling them from their predestined fates in either realm. For centuries, she has resisted a personal temptation toward a soul named Michael, visiting him in dreams through his lifetimes. As the final reckoning approaches, known as the Balancing, the tally of souls will dictate the next cycle's nature. A darker force called the Shade, a spectral being of purple light, seeks to seize control of this pivotal moment. With agents embedded in Heaven and Hell, the Shade lurks in the foggy realms between. Azrael must rally her choir to prepare for an impending apocalypse while managing her buried emotions toward Michael.