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The Garden Above the World: Book One of the Stone Sanctuary Series
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 29 2026
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE GARDEN ABOVE THE WORLD
She built a garden to hide from her past. He's been stone for five centuries, waiting for someone brave enough to set him free.
Mira Voss has spent two years creating the impossible-a thriving rooftop garden forty-three stories above Seattle, growing orchids in winter and cultivating bioluminescent moss that glows like fairy lights. Up here, surrounded by her plants, she's finally safe from the abusive ex-fiancé she fled. Up here, she's in control.
But everything changes the morning she touches the massive gargoyle statue that guards her garden... and discovers it's warm.
Kael has been frozen in stone for five hundred years, cursed for the sin of pride, sentenced to watch over Seattle as an immovable guardian. He never expected to be freed-especially not by a woman with dirt under her fingernails and flowers in her hair, who tends impossible gardens and talks to her plants like they're family.
Their connection is instantaneous. Dangerous. And completely forbidden.
Because Mira's ex has found her. And he's not just abusive-he's leading a cult that's opening rifts between worlds, summoning shadow beasts to invade Seattle. Marcus believes Mira is the key to his ritual, that her blood can make the invasion permanent. He'll stop at nothing to reclaim her.
Now Mira faces an impossible choice: run again and abandon everything she's built, or stay and fight beside a gargoyle warrior who makes her feel powerful for the first time in her life.
But fighting means transformation. And transformation might cost her everything-including her humanity.
As shadow beasts pour through rifts across the city, as her garden begins to develop its own dangerous magic, and as her feelings for Kael deepen into something that terrifies her, Mira must decide: Will she remain prey, or will she become the predator?
PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE:
TROPES & THEMES:
Gargoyle/Human Romance
Enemies to Lovers (with villain ex)
Forced Proximity
Touch Her and Die
Protector/Protected
Power Through Sacrifice
Found Family
Beauty and the Beast vibes
Transformation/Body Horror (positive)
Witch Best Friend
Rooftop Sanctuary
Urban Fantasy Romance
Fated Mates (subtle)
He Falls First
- Enemies to Lovers (with villain ex)
- Forced Proximity
- Touch Her and Die
- Protector/Protected
- Power Through Sacrifice
- Found Family - Beauty and the Beast vibes
- Transformation/Body Horror (positive)
- Witch Best Friend - Rooftop Sanctuary
- Urban Fantasy Romance
- Fated Mates (subtle)
- He Falls First
- Morally Gray Hero with a Dark Past
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