Randy Littlejohn

Guardian in Exile

The God Eater’s Hellion

When primordial evil is unleashed on the City of Angels, a fallen angel must choose between revenge or a slim chance at redemption.

Available soon on Amazon

Guardian in Exile

The God Eater’s Hellion

When primordial evil is unleashed on the City of Angels, a fallen angel must choose between revenge or a slim chance at redemption.

Available soon on Amazon

The man was dead. I checked his clothes. No ID, but I found a hand-drawn map and an address in his shirt pocket. I glanced at it and stuffed it in my jacket.

Tattoos covered his body. Sophisticated sigils designed to hide him from demons and angels. There was another tattoo on the underside of the man’s right wrist—three small black dots.

I felt a buildup of static again but this time associated with the man’s body. I stood back. A burning portal opened in the wood floor. A skeletal creature crawled out, smoking patches of flesh here and there. It took a disinterested glance at me and went to work drawing the dead man’s soul from his body and into its hole. The soul resisted, screeching and writhing, but the creature paid no attention. It was simply doing its job, and down into the hole the creature and soul went. I started to turn away, but the soul, still screeching, came crawling back, until a smoldering hand yanked it back down. I could hear the soul’s fading screeches as the portal closed and disappeared without a trace. I vaporized the man’s body and translocated out.

Name’s Asariel. Guardian angel. Celebrated for dusting the worst monsters in Creation. Was anyway, until I broke a Celestial Edict, a big one too. Now I’m exiled, stuffed in the body of recently dead guy, and run a bookstore in North Hollywood. And that’s how the story could’ve ended, selling books and plotting revenge — until one blustery day this beguiling young woman, packing supernatural firepower, waltzed into my store and talked me into a hunt across twin universes in search of an unhinged archdemon of wrath.

Okay, I admit it’s more complicated than that. There’s the abrupt supernatural mischief among the Hollywood elite, mysteriously dead clergy, fallen angels, soul eaters, and Queen Titania. Plus, according to primordial angelic lore, this particular archdemon destroys Creation.

So, what’s an ex-Guardian jammed in the body of a middle-aged man supposed to do? Good question.

Praise for Guardian in Exile

“What do you get when you mix noir LA, fallen angels, fantasy worlds and a plucky human with magical abilities… you get a page turner named Guardian in Exile byRandyLittlejohn. Choose wisely and immerse yourself in literary magic.”

~ Brooks Wachtel, Emmy award-winning writer-producer.

“Guardian in Exile reminds me of map-spanning adventures like Raiders of the Lost Arc or Lord of the Rings with a nice romantic subplot. It’s urban fantasy and at its center is a quirky, quippy heroic trio on a grand adventure with high stakes that moves effortlessly between an ancient evil threatening our modern world and a fantastic landscape populated by denizens of mythology and folklore. Never lost interest. This thing screams to be a movie.”

~ Richard Mueller, author of Palmdale Must Be Destroyed, Rails and Horses and many other books.

Meet the Author

Randy Littlejohn has worn many hats during his long career: United States Coast Guard radioman, videographer, video game writer, animation teleplay writer working on shows such as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002 series) and X-Men Evolution (full animation credits at Internet Movie Database — IMDB.com).