The Gargoyle Audiobook (Free)

An extraordinary debut novel of like that survives the fires of hell and transcends the limitations of time

The narrator from the Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern lifestyle. As the publication opens, he’s generating along a dark road when he’s distracted with what seems to be a airline flight of arrows. He accidents right into a ravine and suffers terrible burns over a lot of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the about The Gargoyle tortures from the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit thoroughly planned suicide-for he’s today a monster to look at as well such as soul.

A lovely and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles from the name of Marianne Engel appears in the feet of his bed and insists that these were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her informing, he was a terribly hurt mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back again to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life-and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne’s treatment and occupies home in her large stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his former sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives term from God that she has just twenty-seven sculptures remaining to complete-and her time on earth will be finished.

Already a global literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It has you thinking in the difficult.