HALO book cover illustration,
Macmillan, USA
Published by Feiwel and Friends, Halo marked Adornetto's American debut and was released in August 2010.
Halo takes place in Venus Cove, a fictional town later revealed to be located on the Georgia coastline. The quiet, picturesque town is ultimately revolutionized when three biblical angels—Gabriel, Ivy, and Bethany—arrive on a mission to guard its residents against the dark work of Lucifer's demons. The angels take up residence in a beach-side cottage named Byron (presumably named after Adornetto's childhood home), and Bethany begin attending Bryce Hamilton, the local high school. Here, Beth meets a human boy named Xavier with a troubled past and soon falls in love with him, defying the laws of Heaven and threatening the angels' mission. The story revolves almost exclusively around Bethany and Xavier's forbidden relationship until the arrival of a transfer student, Jake Thorn, who takes a sinister liking to Bethany. Jake is not who he claims to be, and the plot culminates in a confrontation between the angels and the forces of evil.
HADES book cover illustration,
Macmillan, USA
Hades, a sequel to Halo, was released in the United States, Canada, and Australia on 30 August 2011.
It follows Xavier and Beth, whose relationship has finally been accepted by Beth's siblings, to a Hallowe'en party in an old, abandoned house, where Beth reluctantly takes part in a séance with her friends. The séance ultimately awakens the demon, Jake Thorn, who tricks Bethany into a motorcycle ride on the pretense that Xavier is seriously hurt. The motorcycle takes Beth and Jake through a portal and into Hell. Bethany is kept as a prisoner in Hotel Ambrosia, where she befriends two fellow captives, Hannah and Tuck. It is revealed that Jake is a Prince of the Underworld and intends to lure Beth into marriage, but Bethany refuses to have anything to do with him. She engages in a form of astral projection in order to watch over Xavier, Molly, Gabriel, and Ivy in their mission to rescue her, and witnesses an attempt of Jake's to kill Xavier, which he ceases at the very last moment. Jake offers a proposition to Beth: that if she gives him her virginity, he won't try to hurt Xavier again. After much moral deliberation, Beth agrees out of love for Xavier—but is rescued from Hades just in time by Xavier and her siblings. Gabriel disposes of Jake Thorn for good, and they return to Venus Cove. The novel concludes with Xavier and Beth's graduation, which they end up ditching on Xavier's suggestion. Xavier then proposes; Beth says yes. They go to their favorite diner, Sweethearts, where Xavier shows Beth the ring, but the room starts rattling dangerously in what appears to be a heavenly intervention, and the novel ends on a cliffhanger.
HADES book cover illustration,
Harper Collins, Australia
Hades, a sequel to Halo, was released in the United States, Canada, and Australia on 30 August 2011.
It follows Xavier and Beth, whose relationship has finally been accepted by Beth's siblings, to a Hallowe'en party in an old, abandoned house, where Beth reluctantly takes part in a séance with her friends. The séance ultimately awakens the demon, Jake Thorn, who tricks Bethany into a motorcycle ride on the pretense that Xavier is seriously hurt. The motorcycle takes Beth and Jake through a portal and into Hell. Bethany is kept as a prisoner in Hotel Ambrosia, where she befriends two fellow captives, Hannah and Tuck. It is revealed that Jake is a Prince of the Underworld and intends to lure Beth into marriage, but Bethany refuses to have anything to do with him. She engages in a form of astral projection in order to watch over Xavier, Molly, Gabriel, and Ivy in their mission to rescue her, and witnesses an attempt of Jake's to kill Xavier, which he ceases at the very last moment. Jake offers a proposition to Beth: that if she gives him her virginity, he won't try to hurt Xavier again. After much moral deliberation, Beth agrees out of love for Xavier—but is rescued from Hades just in time by Xavier and her siblings. Gabriel disposes of Jake Thorn for good, and they return to Venus Cove. The novel concludes with Xavier and Beth's graduation, which they end up ditching on Xavier's suggestion. Xavier then proposes; Beth says yes. They go to their favorite diner, Sweethearts, where Xavier shows Beth the ring, but the room starts rattling dangerously in what appears to be a heavenly intervention, and the novel ends on a cliffhanger.
HEAVEN book cover illustration,
Macmillan, USA
Heaven, the third and final novel in the Halo trilogy, will be released in August 2012.
Bethany, an angel sent to Earth, and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier, have been to Hell and back. But now their love will be put to its highest test yet, as they defy Heavenly law and marry. They don’t tell Beth’s archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, but the angels know soon enough, and punishment comes in a terrifying form: the Sevens, who are rogue angels bent on keeping Beth and Xavier apart, destroying Gabriel and Ivy, and darkening angelic power in the heavens.
The only way Bethany and Xavier can elude the Sevens is to hide in the open, and blend in with other mortals their own age. Gabriel and Ivy set them up at college, where they can’t reveal their relationship, and where there is still danger around each corner. Will Bethany be called back to Heaven – forever – and face leaving the love of her life?