High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kushiel`s Dart is Jacqueline Carey`s first novel and the first of the novels in her Kushiel`s Legacy series. The idea for this book first came to Carey when she was reading the Biblical Book of Genesis, and specifically a passage about "sons of God" coming into the "daughters of Men." Later, when she was writing a coffee table book, she encountered Jewish folklore, which paralleled the story in greater detail. The fictional nation of Terre D`Ange in the story was founded by a rebel angel.