Layla leapt at the 'guardian angel' Gabriel's offer to help when he came to her rescue. She was outraged, though, to discover he actually expected her gratitude to take the form of ... sexual favors. When he told her he didn't have a woman, and she was one even if she wasn't one of their women, so she'd do.
The entire civilization of the indigenous people of Nadryl had collapsed into anarchy as a result of the deadly plague, however, and the only thing that gave anyone even a chance of survival was strength, cunning, and fighting skills. And Gabriel Black Hawk had all three.
It was a match made in Hell. For both of them.
