When her search for a sapphire known as the Eye of the Storm is dead-ended, Arabella Cole is forced to consider a partnership with one of the ton's most notorious rakes, Gabriel Ashton Duvall, the Earl of Bainbridge. He holds the clue to the last known whereabouts of the Eye, and will share it with her-for a price. Arabella desperately needs the money selling the Eye would bring to pay off her half-brother's debts. With her choices being either a partnership with the devil himself or a loveless marriage of convenience, the devil begins to look pretty good.

Gabriel Duvall is a rake to his fingertips, or so it is whispered in London's fashionable salons. After jilting his fiancé and disappearing on the Continent for seven years, he's returned to London with a heart of stone and a reputation black as coal. Gabriel unknowingly inherited the first clue in a string of clues that leads to the location of the Eye. He may possess the clue, but only Arabella knows how to decode it. He insists she make him a partner in her search before handing it over. A third party also has his sights on the Eye, though, and he'll do anything to acquire it. Even kill. Suddenly their treasure hunt has turned into a race against time, with their lives on the line.

Raine's life has been touched by the demon Goran on more than one occasion. Each time she's been able to withstand his dark promise of power, but he won't be thwarted a third time. He comes to her with a deal she can't refuse: serve him, or damn her sister to an eternity in Hell. His bidding? He wants Raine to hunt down a fellow demon, Aryntir, and destroy him. Fail, and she forfeits not only her sister's soul, but her own as well.

"Blood-curdling . . . in 'Love's Consequence,' demons mess with love, hate, and mortal minds for some deliciously startling and sadistic insights into human nature." -TANGENT Short Fiction Review