Gates of Paradise

Aliana Maddock runs for her life when she discovers the gift her father plans to bestow upon her for her twenty-fifth birthday. It isn't the inheritance her mother promised before her death, but a contract for a marriage to a man twice her age—a criminal associate of her father's. Sent to guard one of the gates of Paradise during the Sabbat when the veil between their world and the humans' becomes thin, Griffin Bedard and Dracen Giacomo find a half dead woman lying unconscious on cl