Gabriel's Angel (Language of Love, 32)

By Nora Roberts

Book Overview

Gabriel's Angel by Nora Roberts released on Sep 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373285442
• ISBN13: 9780373285440
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Silhouette
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Romance novel!

I love this story! Maybe not as Christmasy as it is advertised but it truely is a beautiful romantic story about a lonely artist who was very involved with his work, and a a beautiful, pregnant, young woman who is on the run from her deceased husbands family. In the midst of this all they fall madly in love with each other. I absollutely loved it!!!

A Romantic Tale for Any Time of the Year

First off, GABRIEL'S ANGEL is, indeed, a reprint of the original Silhouette edition that was published in 1989. I had read this story years ago, but wanted to reread it and was intrigued with the new cover. Is the book a Christmas story? Not in the literal sense. In the way that it inspires love, happiness, selflessness, and a sense of well-being, then yes, it's a good holiday read. Laura Malone, former model and a woman whose face was known worldwide, is on the run--not from an abusive husband or a group of bad guys determined to due her harm, but from a domineering, powerful ex-mother-in-law who wants nothing more than to take away Laura's unborn child. Although Laura's former husband is no longer alive, the unborn grandbaby is, at least to Mother-In-Law-Dearest, the necessary means to keep her son alive. With more money than she knows what to do with, she sends out private detectives to find Laura, to force her to return home to hand over custody of her child. While traveling through Colorado on her way to Dallas, Laura makes a wrong turn--and almost ends up dead during a snowstorm on an isolated mountain road. Fortunately, she narrowly avoids hitting Gabriel Bradley, an artist who has chosen solitude in a small mountain cabin to ease his pain and grief over his brother's untimely death. With no other viable ways to get Laura rescued, he takes her home with him--and is immediately struck not only by her beauty, but by her inner strength in the lengths she'll go to protect her child. As the storm rages on, Laura and Gabe learn more about each other than they'd planned--and they devise a plan that includes a marriage of convenience to save Laura's unborn child from its grandmother. But their feelings, although not spoken aloud, are edging towards love. Will it be enough to save this family? Rereading GABRIEL'S ANGEL, I was once again reminded of why I love Nora Roberts and her books. A contrived relationship and overly-used storyline (i.e. marriage of convenience, marry for the baby's sake, etc.) it may be, but Ms. Roberts has a way of writing that fully immerses you in the story. A true romance classic, this is one to reread over and over again.

CHRISTMAS WITH NORA IS ALWAYS GOOD........!!!!

Gabriel Bradley got much more than he bargained for when he quite literally ran into the gorgeous Laura Malone on that snowy December night. Seeking a respite from the hustle and bustle of day to day life, he wanted nothing more than to retreat from humanity while he sought to get his professional life in order. A gifted artist, he has not been able to complete a thing since the tragic loss of someone very close to him...... Laura Malone is on the run. Pregnant with her deceased husband's child, she has been threated by his very wealthy and affluent family if she does not agree to give the only viable Eagleton heir over to them to raise...while agreeing to disappear. Out of money and options, that accident in the snow may very well be the best thing that has happened to Laura in quite some time.... Told in true Roberts' fashion, this is a love story with the requisite touch of drama and suspense that we have come to know so well from this author. Definitely a good read..although not as "Christmasy" as I would have liked. DYB

A feel-good romance to spark the holiday spirit

Odd that this book is being marketed as a Christmas book when it is set in April! I suppose falling in love while stranded together during a late winter blizzard, complete with a natural setting and cozy fireplace, might evoke feelings of the holiday. As well, a troubled pregnant traveler given shelter and care by the kindness of a stranger loosely parallels the theme of the Christmas story. Laura and Gabe are both wounded souls thrown together by unexpected circumstances. Falling in love helps each other to heal: Gabe overcomes his grief and finds new inspiration for his art, and Laura learns to trust again and developes the strength to stand up to her powerful former in-laws. In the process, they form a loving family. This story is easily read in one or two sittings and is sure to warm the heart!

Enjoyable Early Nora Roberts

Laura Malone, widowed and eight months pregnant, is on the run from her disapproving former in-laws, who want to raise the baby themselves in their blue-blooded lifestyle. A car accident in the snow brings her to cranky artist Gabriel Bradley. Laura is snowbound with Gabe in his cabin and he offers to marry her to help defeat the in-laws. This was the first Nora Roberts book I have ever read which continued the story after the hero and heroine got married. Laura and Gabe learn to build a new family together and foil the evil in-laws plans.Excerpt from the back of the book:"No one was going to take her child away from her! Pregnant and alone, Laura Malone had been on the move for months. Finding herself snowbound with an angry, impatient Gabriel Bradley was not part of her plans.Gabe wanted to be alone. He'd come to the isolated cabin to think, to work, and to heal. But when a woman crashed into his life-literally-he's felt obliged to help. Laura was everything a man could ever want and all that he desired. She trusted him, but Gabe was hard put to be an angel when Laura felt like heaven in his arms."