Night of Stone
(2026)(The first book in the Monster Security After Dark series)
A novel by Cassie Alexander
I bought her. She didn’t even have a name.
In this city, humans own the skyline. The Chain owns everything underneath. I’m Thorne, a gargoyle cursed to turn to stone with every sunrise, and I run Nocturne, a nightclub built on secrets and blood money. I’ve done terrible things, and I’ll do worse before my time is up.
But nothing has ever felt as wrong—or as right—as the night I saw her on that stage and decided she was mine.
She woke in one of my guest suites with no memories, no past, and a borrowed name I put in her mouth: Sophia. All she knows is that a winged stranger is standing between her and the world outside, swearing he’ll never hurt her... while refusing to let her leave.
I should be ashamed of how I got her. I’m not. She will be.
I will never give her up.
The Monster Security Agency can’t trace where she came from. The people who sold her are still out there, somewhere in the Chain. And Sophia is smart enough to know a gilded cage when she’s living in one.
When she discovers the truth and walks out into a city that will eat her alive, I have one night to find her before dawn turns me to stone—and before the monsters who made her come to take their property back.
If Sophia thinks my heart is made of stone?
She’s right.
Night of Stone is a dark, possessive gargoyle monster romance with an amnesiac captive heroine, and a morally black protector—a cursed nightclub owner who will break the Chain before he lets her go. It is the first in a series of dark monster romances set in the Monster Security Agency world, about the men who run Club Nocturne.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
In this city, humans own the skyline. The Chain owns everything underneath. I’m Thorne, a gargoyle cursed to turn to stone with every sunrise, and I run Nocturne, a nightclub built on secrets and blood money. I’ve done terrible things, and I’ll do worse before my time is up.
But nothing has ever felt as wrong—or as right—as the night I saw her on that stage and decided she was mine.
She woke in one of my guest suites with no memories, no past, and a borrowed name I put in her mouth: Sophia. All she knows is that a winged stranger is standing between her and the world outside, swearing he’ll never hurt her... while refusing to let her leave.
I should be ashamed of how I got her. I’m not. She will be.
I will never give her up.
The Monster Security Agency can’t trace where she came from. The people who sold her are still out there, somewhere in the Chain. And Sophia is smart enough to know a gilded cage when she’s living in one.
When she discovers the truth and walks out into a city that will eat her alive, I have one night to find her before dawn turns me to stone—and before the monsters who made her come to take their property back.
If Sophia thinks my heart is made of stone?
She’s right.
Night of Stone is a dark, possessive gargoyle monster romance with an amnesiac captive heroine, and a morally black protector—a cursed nightclub owner who will break the Chain before he lets her go. It is the first in a series of dark monster romances set in the Monster Security Agency world, about the men who run Club Nocturne.
Genre: Paranormal Romance