Sleepless Gargoyle's Watch
(2027)(The ninth book in the Ironhorse MC series)
A novel by Eden Valentine
Tropes: Reluctant roommates, Protector romance, Night shift romance, Touch-starved hero, Size difference, MC romance
Kendra White talks people through the worst moments of their lives. As Silver Hollow's night shift emergency dispatcher, she spends every shift with a headset and a calm voice, guiding strangers through crises she can't see. She goes home at dawn to a silent apartment and nobody talks her through hers.
Robbie "Granite" Parker does night security at the mine. Eight hundred pounds, stone-skinned, functional wings. He's a gargoyle — built to watch, built to guard, built to perch in the dark and keep everything safe.
Their entire relationship happens between midnight and dawn. She starts bringing him coffee on her breaks because nobody else is awake to talk to. He starts showing up outside the dispatch building on his off nights because his body won't let him rest unless she's safe.
Gargoyles need stone-rest — a dormant state where the body regenerates. Granite's vigil-bond won't let him enter dormancy unless Kendra is protected and nearby. He's deteriorating. Getting slower, grayer, heavier. His body is turning to stone without the rest to balance it, and he can't close his eyes because the last time he slept, he lost everything — a family he was guarding, a fire he couldn't stop, centuries of grief that erased the world he knew.
When Kendra's apartment floods in January and the only person awake to help is eight hundred pounds of gargoyle who already knows where she lives, she has to decide: does she let the monster who's been watching over her into her home — knowing he might never leave?
And he has to decide something harder: does he trust her enough to close his eyes?
Reluctant roommates with a gargoyle who can't sleep and a dispatcher who can't stop listening. Night shifts, stone-skin warmth, functional wings, and a bond that asks the hardest question in the series. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Kendra White talks people through the worst moments of their lives. As Silver Hollow's night shift emergency dispatcher, she spends every shift with a headset and a calm voice, guiding strangers through crises she can't see. She goes home at dawn to a silent apartment and nobody talks her through hers.
Robbie "Granite" Parker does night security at the mine. Eight hundred pounds, stone-skinned, functional wings. He's a gargoyle — built to watch, built to guard, built to perch in the dark and keep everything safe.
Their entire relationship happens between midnight and dawn. She starts bringing him coffee on her breaks because nobody else is awake to talk to. He starts showing up outside the dispatch building on his off nights because his body won't let him rest unless she's safe.
Gargoyles need stone-rest — a dormant state where the body regenerates. Granite's vigil-bond won't let him enter dormancy unless Kendra is protected and nearby. He's deteriorating. Getting slower, grayer, heavier. His body is turning to stone without the rest to balance it, and he can't close his eyes because the last time he slept, he lost everything — a family he was guarding, a fire he couldn't stop, centuries of grief that erased the world he knew.
When Kendra's apartment floods in January and the only person awake to help is eight hundred pounds of gargoyle who already knows where she lives, she has to decide: does she let the monster who's been watching over her into her home — knowing he might never leave?
And he has to decide something harder: does he trust her enough to close his eyes?
Reluctant roommates with a gargoyle who can't sleep and a dispatcher who can't stop listening. Night shifts, stone-skin warmth, functional wings, and a bond that asks the hardest question in the series. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance