Julian's Chance — Jessica L. Jackson

“I'm telling you straight out now, honey, that I'm the most selfish bastard you will ever know.” Gabriella is returning to Earth with a new assignment. She's to help Julian Gath learn how to love. She'll be reborn as a mortal and only come into the knowledge of who she is -- an angel -- on her twenty-fifth birthday. When she completes her mission, she will return to Heaven. That is the way of things for angels for she proved her worthiness many lifetimes before. This is Julian's chance to prove his. But, the moment her eyes are open, she knows that this mission is different for her. The love she feels for this powerful, compelling man goes far beyond the charitable love she usually has for her charges. He makes her yearn for life… Julian Gath wants Gabriella. To him, she radiates something pure and good. He has to have her -- to feel as if all that goodness is working in his favor. Something in his life has to be right and good. No matter what it takes, he will win her for his own. He will not love her, however, because love is a weak, useless emotion that does not last. She will be the one bright star shining in his shadowy world…