Angel-Seeker is a fantasy novel

Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...

 by Sharon Shinn

Sharon Shinn

Sharon Shinn is an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy, science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri and is a graduate of Northwestern University.Sharon is a...

, published in 2004. It is the fifth novel in the Samaria series. It is set shortly after Archangel

Archangel (Shinn novel)

Archangel is a 1997 science fiction novel by Sharon Shinn. It is the first book in the Samaria series of novels.- Plot summary :Samaria is a planet that has been settled with colonists from a different planet some time in the past. The colonists made the journey in a spaceship named Jovah, which...

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Plot summary

Samaria is a changed land. Corrupt politicians are gone. The poor are not so destitute. The Edori are no longer slaves. Elizabeth is a young, healthy farm-girl. Tired of her lot in life, she leaves for Cedar Hills with one goal in mind. To birth the child of one of the powerful Angel beings and live in the lap of luxury for the rest of her natural life. The story also focuses on the isolated life of Rebekah, a Jansai woman and the Angel Obadiah, whom she nurses back to health after he is wounded flying over the desert.

Samaria Series

• Archangel
  Archangel (Shinn novel)
  Archangel is a 1997 science fiction novel by Sharon Shinn. It is the first book in the Samaria series of novels.- Plot summary :Samaria is a planet that has been settled with colonists from a different planet some time in the past. The colonists made the journey in a spaceship named Jovah, which...
  
  (Ace Books
  Ace Books
  Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
  
  , 1997)
• Jovah's Angel
  Jovah's Angel
  Jovah's Angel is a 1998 science fiction/fantasy novel by Sharon Shinn. It is the second book in the Samaria series of novels.- Plot summary :...
  
  (Ace Books, 1998)
• The Alleluia Files
  The Alleluia Files
  The Alleluia Files is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Sharon Shinn, published in 1999. It is the third book in the Samaria series.-Plot summary:...
  
  (Ace Books, 1999)
• Angelica (Ace Books, 2003) Although this is the fourth novel in the Samaria series, it is set before the first book Archangel.
• Angel-Seeker (Ace Books, 2004)