A New York Times BestsellerThe Gargoyle the mesmerizing story of one mans descent into personal hell and his quest for salvationOn a dark road in the middle of the night a car plunges into a ravine The driver survives the crash but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit There the mysterious Marianne Engel a sculptress of grotesques enters his life She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal As she spins the story of their past lives together the mans disbelief falters soon even the impossible can no longer be dismissed