Ella Harrow lives a simple life, working for the Vancouver
Museum of Art and History, helping out at fundraisers and
in the gift shop. She doesn't really like being around
people and whenever she needs quiet, she makes her way to
the gardens and to the enormous sculpture the staff had
dubbed St. Arthur Conan Gargoyle. When she is threatened by
a mugger the statue suddenly explodes and there standing
before her is an enormous ... moving ... gargoyle. She has
no
way of knowing that she is about to fall for a HEART OF
STONE.
Kees Livingston is a guardian and has been sleeping for a
number of years waiting for the time he and his fellow
guardians are needed to fight the evil. He is confused when
he finds the little human with no training and not a member
of the Guild of Wardens is the reason he is awake. What has
happened to the world he knows? He needs answers and very
quickly before something really bad happens to the whole
world.
As Ella and Kees work together they find that his guild and
the wardens who are the ones who are able to wake the
gargoyles when needed are being annihilated by the
nocturnis, the minion of the evil seven that the guardians
had been created to fight. These minions are seeking the
power that is in Ella even though it is untrained she is
strong. On top of everything he has tried not to have
feelings for his little human, but it is soon a losing
battle. Kees will do whatever he must to protect her and
find a way to protect the world.
HEART OF STONE is the first in a new series by author
Christine Warren. It is fantastic, with a lot of twists
that affect the reader as much as the characters, and a
steaming hot gargoyle ... at least when he turns human ...
and
a young woman who quickly learns to kick butt. I did so
enjoy poor Kees turmoil with the emotions that Ella brought
out in him, even if I did want to shake him a couple of
times. There were also a few times that I felt the
storyline bogged down, but I believe that is due to it
being a first book with Ms. Warren wanting to lay down a
good background for future books. I cannot wait for the
next installment.
From bestselling author Christine Warren comes a
thrilling new series about a young woman caught between a
rock and a hard place—between gargoyles and demons…
Ella Harrow is trying to carve out a normal life for
herself. Well, as normal as an art geek with psychic
abilities can hope for. As museum docent and gift-shop
manager, Ella is able to keep her distance from people—and
her powers in check—while surrounding herself with the
artifacts she loves. But how on earth is she supposed to act
normal when a thousand-year-old statue on the museum’s
terrace suddenly comes to life?
HEART OF STONE
Not your ordinary gargoyle, Kees has been asleep for eons,
waiting for a portent of evil to wake him from his slumber.
Kees isn’t a vision; he’s a bat-winged guardian created to
protect the world from the seven demons of the Dark.
Somehow, Ella triggered his reawakening. Maybe the demons
have been unleashed? Maybe his heart is finally ready to be
chiseled open? The fate of the world isn’t carved in
stone… yet.
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