The nameless & 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 & 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 & compelling sculptress of gargoyles enters his life & tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling he was a badly burned mercenary & she was a nun & a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale Scheherazade fashion & relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan Greenland Italy & England he finds himself drawn back to life
- & finally to love."