Raphael — Amber Carlton

Named for the archangel of love, Rafe Logan seeks pleasure where he can. Content to run his London brothel, Fallen Angels, he's forced to Virginia to find his brother who disappeared while pursuing a piece of property-a woman purchased years ago. Riley Sullivan has problems. She hides a shameful past, struggles with her brother to work her smithy, and fights a tide of men trying to claim her independence and inheritance. Rafe seems like a dark archangel come to answer her prayers. When he offers to help her in exchange for a place to stay, she's ecstatic until he claims her dead father owes him a debt. She strikes a dangerous bargain-her body to pay off the debt. As Rafe falls in love with his "property," Riley cannot resist the man who has haunted her dreams. But a woman from Rafe's past has plans of her own.