Hattie Newman is about to embark on the greatest adventure any normal young woman just graduated from university can start - moving out of home. However, with Hattie's family home consisting of her human parents, an extra Angelic mother, a fallen angel-turned-human third mother, and a literal host of celestial aunts and uncles, 'normal' is not a description often leveled at Hattie.

When, one-by-one, her angelic relatives start to disappear, Hattie finds herself thrust once again into the Great War between Heaven and Hell, only this time she doesn't have the strength of her celestial family to help her. And in trying to save them, the girl who was once called the 'Wingless of Fear' may eventually discover just what fear really means. Born Without Wings is the second novel in the Wingless series by David M. James and takes up Hattie's story fifteen years after events in Wingless.