He has watched over her building for four hundred years. He has watched over her family for generations. But from the moment she was born, he knew she was different.Mara has always felt safe in her grandmother's brownstone — she just never knew why. When a stalker follows her home one rainy October night, the answer steps off the rooftop and into her life: Dorian, an ancient gargoyle who has been her silent guardian since her first breath.He is stone. He is four centuries old. He has decided she is his.And he is very, very thorough.Some things are worth a four-hundred-year wait.