Atonement Sky by Nalini Singh
Paranormal Romance
July 15, 2025, by Berkley

Review by Melanie

Atonement Sky, the latest in Nalini Singh’s long running Psy-Changeling Trinity series goes where it has never gone before – to the skies. We’ve had leopards and wolves and bears (oh my!) and even taken to the water with the BlackSea Conclave but this is the first book in which we get an in depth look at a brand new changeling pack, WindHaven, made up of falcon changelings living in the desert in Arizona. 

To say I was excited to dive into a brand new changeling pack is a bit of an understatement. I’ve been saying this for years that I wanted this series to explore different changeling packs because while I love the leopards and wolves and yes, those goofy bears, I love the idea of Nalini featuring some more unusual changeling packs in her series. 

WindHaven is headed by Adam Garrett, who, much like the very first alpha hero of the series, Lucas Hunter, has been dealt a lot of loss and grief in his young life. His parents were killed a decade before the book starts and the Psy allowed his parents’ murderer to walk free. He blames them for that, and especially the J-Psy he met that day of the trial who he felt an immediate connection with until in his view, she betrayed him. 

Justice Psy Eleri Dias is a walking time bomb. J Psy don’t have unlimited time given the sensitive nature of their highly specialized skills. What she does know is that in the limited time she has left on this planet, she wants to undo some past wrongs and solve a series of murders in which the murderer has targeted Eleri specially. The murders bring her right to Adam’s doorstep and neither has forgotten the other or the emotional pull between them. 

Adam is struggling with his feelings of betrayal and Eleri, while apologetic about her past actions, is not looking for forgiveness. She is determined to finish one last job before its lights out for her. 

As always, Nalini crafts a compelling story with two extremely complicated and engaging characters and a brand new pack of changelings who are all so intriguing that I definitely want books about all of them. (Cough, Jacques, cough, I really want his book). There’s that wonderful sense of found family that is prevalent throughout this whole series and what’s interesting in this book is that Eleri comes with her own found family, a group of 3 other Justice Psy who are all facing the end of their lives and have banded together and formed an unique bond due to the unusual nature of their skills and how it affects them on the psychic level. 

I absolutely adored this story, once again, it had all the trademarks found in this series, a sense of family and community and togetherness while also giving us a glimpse into a whole new world of changlings who live much of their lives in the air. 

The romance between Adam and Eleri is tumultuous at first and then heartbreakingly tender and loving. I don’t want to give too much away but if you’re into a nurturing, caretaking, protective hero who would do literally anything to save the woman he loves, then look no further than this book. 

As an added bonus, there’s a secondary romance that pops up in the final third of the book that is also delightful and I hope Nalini further explores that relationship because I certainly wouldn’t mind reading at least a novella about that couple. 

All in all, I loved this book, I wanted to parse it out but ended up staying up far too late in the night in order to keep reading about these falcons. 

Grade: A

Content Notes: murder, kidnapping, mention of past emotional trauma and crimes, hospitalization