The Gargoyle Architect's Secret
A Paranormal Romance

About this book:

For three centuries, Julian Vance has worn human skin like a borrowed coat, guarding the soaring stones of Saint-Jude's Cathedral with a patience measured in heartbeats—twelve per minute, to be exact. By day, he is the brilliant, irascible architect nursing the gothic masterpiece back from ruin; by night, he is something far older, bound to the limestone and the gargoyles that watch from the parapets. His carefully constructed solitude shatters when Dr. Claire Harper arrives: a razor-sharp preservationist armed with laser scans, municipal mandates, and a terrifying lack of reverence for the sacred. She sees a structural hazard to be managed; he feels a living body fighting to breathe. And when a falling stone boss explodes against his bare forearm without leaving a scratch, Claire's cool competence cracks into something far more dangerous—curiosity.

Claire Harper doesn't believe in magic. She believes in budgets, load-bearing calculations, and the cold, hard reality that a building that doesn't pay for itself gets demolished. But Julian Vance moves like a shadow, hears the cathedral's stress fractures singing in his bones, and survives impacts that should pulp a man. As they clash over flying buttresses and adaptive reuse, the air between them grows thick with a tension no blueprint can explain. Claire is determined to dissect his secrets; Julian is terrified she'll succeed. Because if she discovers what sleeps beneath the nave—what he truly is—she won't just lose her heart. She'll become the target of the ancient enemies who have waited three hundred years for the Architect to lower his guard.

Set in a rain-slicked, candle-lit cathedral where every stone holds a memory and every gargoyle a warning, *The Gargoyle Architect's Secret* is a slow-burn paranormal romance that pits modern pragmatism against immortal devotion. Julian must choose between the sanctuary he's bled for and the woman who makes his stone heart beat like a drum. Claire must decide if the man who caught a falling boss with his bare arm is a miracle, a monster, or the only thing standing between a masterpiece and the wrecking ball. Some foundations are built to last forever—but only if you're brave enough to let the light in.