Gabriel's Angel (1989), a Silhouette romance novel, is about a young woman, Laura, who is heavily pregnant and alone when, one icy Colorado night, she almost collides with a Jeep driven by the famed artist Gabriel Bradley. Gabriel (Gabe) rescues Laura by taking her back to his cabin in the mountains of Colorado that night. There, the two bond with one another and begin to fall in love. Both Laura and Gabe have come here escaping something: Laura has been running from the wealthy and heartless parents of her recently dead, abusive and philandering husband Tony, the father of her unborn child; and Gabe has come here to quietly grieve the untimely death of his younger brother, for which he feels secretly, tragically responsible, and to try to develop the will to paint again. In order to be able to love one another, both Gabe and Laura must find the courage to open up to one another about the sad secrets of their pasts, face their respective demons, and risk trusting one another. Slowly, all of that is accomplished, with great pain and effort, by the end of the story.

             While still in Colorado, Gabe and Laura are married by a justice of the peace inside Gabe's mountain cabin. After the baby is born (whom they name Michael after Gabe's deceased brother) Gabe, Laura, and the new baby (who is the scion of the wealthy and heartless Eagleton family of Boston, from whom Laura has fled) move back to Gabe's house in San Francisco. .

             There are twelve chapters in this 288 page book, which spent several weeks on the national bestseller lists, as have many other books by this author. In the first chapter, Gabe and Laura meet, by accident, with Laura's compact car having nearly collided with Gabe's Jeep on an icy, winding Colorado mountain road one evening. Gabe has come here, to this remote part of Colorado, to be alone for a few months and try to recapture his will to paint, following his beloved younger brother Michael's death.