So volume one finally came and I was able to read it last night. It takes place a few months after the final battle at the end of "Angel" season 5. Angel is human again, but Wesley's ghost is keeping up the vampire charade with the use of charms and glamours. Spike is living large as Hugh Hefner, complete with a mansion and a bunch of gorgeous women. He's keeping an eye on Illyria, who is mentally unstable and causing all kinds of time jumps and havoc. Angel finds out Spike is actually helping Connor run a kind of rescue operation, hiding out people in the mansion until Connor can get them to safety. L.A. has been divided up into sections, each with its own Lord (Spike is co-Lord of Beverly Hills, along with Illyria). Angel kills the son of a Lord, and the Lords all get together to challenge him to a fight against champions of their choice. Angel is supposed to fight them alone, but of course the gang all rallies around him. I'm curious how long he'll be able to keep up pretending to be a vampire. Oh, and he somehow talked the Dragon into fighting on his side, which is cool. Not as cool as Spike walking around in a floor length robe with a bunch of hot women trailing after him, but still cool.
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