Endangered Species — Nancy Holder; Jeff Mariotte

Is It Time For Atonement

Cordelia Chase is accustomed to being rocked by visions of horror courtesy of the Powers That Be. But she is particularly disturbed to be visited with the image of someone she knows: Faith, the rogue Slayer who is being stalked in prison by the supernatural. The picture becomes clearer when Chaz Escobar, a onetime game hunter, arrives at Angel Investigations. He explains that he is searching for his wife, Marianna, a vampire. He had been working on the cure for her vampirism on a small, distant island -- but she escaped. He suspects her for being the monster harassing Faith.

When Faith is magickally sprung from jail -- straight into Marianna's clutches -- Angel's team and Chaz are off to the island preserve to save her. If Chaz's goal is to rid the world of vampires -- even those with a soul -- would this be Angel's chance to right all his past wrongs? Can the cosmic scales be balanced if Angel allows Chaz to continue his research, even it means Angel's death?