Politics have broken out among the angels, seeking to nominate the next Messenger.
They simply act on orders, but without Gabriel, God's Messenger, they have no idea what they are supposed to do. Raffe has no idea what the angels are doing -none of them do. Penryn and Raffe leave and continue north to the angel aerie in San Francisco, at a 1920s-themed club. They are led by a good man named Obadiah, who wants to give people hope by fighting back. Penryn and Raffe travel north, and fall in with a militia resistance group, determined to fight back against the angels that have invaded Earth. He is reluctant to do so, but decides he must help if he wants the chance of having his wings reattached. Penryn helps nurse Raffe back to health, and asks him to help her find her sister. Paige is then kidnapped and their mother runs away. Raffe manages to fend off the angels, though he becomes seriously wounded, and the lead angel, Beliel, cuts off Raffe's wings. Their escape is interrupted by a fight between the angel Raffe (Raphael) and five challengers. Penryn, her mentally imbalanced mother, and Penryn's little sister, wheelchair-bound Paige, prepare to flee from Silicon Valley into the hills. When the novel begins, the Apocalypse has come. 'Angelfall' is a young adult novel by Susan Ee and revolves around a post-apocalyptic California, and the attempts of seventeen year-old Penryn Young to rescue her kidnapped sister.