A young man is fighting for his life.Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she
can save him.Their journey will have you believing in the impossible.The nameless and beautiful
narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be
a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward undergoing the
tortures of the damned. His life is over - he is now a monster.But in fact it is only just
beginning. One day Marianne Engel a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles enters his
life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling he was a
badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the
famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale Scheherazade fashion and relates equally
mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan Greenland Italy and England he finds himself
drawn back to life - and finally to love.
