Art restorer Felicity "Fil" Shaltis can read the magic in auras, but her fascination with a valuable statue her friend Ella Harrow asks her to locate is purely artistic. At least until the fierce stone gargoyle comes to life as a powerful immortal warrior, who promptly saves her from a cultist set on destroying them both. Suddenly "chiseled good looks" takes on a whole new meaning.


Spar expected nothing less than one of the seven demons of the Dark to wake him, but instead he finds himself the unlikely savior of a spirited human female. As one of seven Guardians created to vanquish the Darkness, Spar has no time for love, but he can't deny that his destiny is clearly entwined with Fil's. To battle the looming threat to humanity, Spar must first save the woman who summoned him . . .