She came to Normandy to restore a cathedral. The cathedral had been waiting nine hundred years to restore her.

Juliette Moreau is a Boston-born art historian with a stolen career, a cheating mentor, and a grandmother who is dead before she can explain what Valmorin really is. When she takes a restoration commission at the cathedral of Saint-Michel-du-Gouffre—a place the French academy pretends not to notice—she finds a gargoyle on the archivolt tracking her across a stone courtyard, a letter her grandmother wrote in 1976, and a man named Aurélien who has been waiting, very patiently, for a Moreau to come back.

He is the last of the Valmorin Stoneborn. Born in 1206. Bound, with his dormant brothers and sisters, to the cathedral’s heart-stone. He wears the body of a man when he chooses. He wears something older—broader, pale as quarried limestone, seamed with living rock—when the oath requires. The women of her line have been his Gardiennes since the first mason struck the first chisel into the first course.

He will not touch her without her word. He will not finish in any form without her permission. He kneels.

But the heart-stone is cracking. A cardinal in Rome is reading intercepted letters. A priest at Mont-Saint-Michel is watching the shelves. A Hollow King under the sea is offering a bargain no scholar should take. And Juliette—who has been groomed for this since she was ten years old without anyone having the courtesy to ask—has to decide whether to seal the pact with a Moreau’s blood, as every woman before her has, or to do the thing no Gardienne has ever dared: rewrite the cathedral instead.

Knotted by the Stoneborn is a standalone gothic monster romance featuring:

• A patient, devoted, 820-year-old Stoneborn hero with a human form, a half-form, and a full stone form
• An older heroine—a scholar in her sixties—claimed in every form and written into the cathedral she came to restore
• Explicit knotting, ritual bonding, and consent-forward intimacy in every shift
• A cathedral on a Norman cliff, a scriptorium on Mont-Saint-Michel, a safe-house in Marseille’s Panier
• A grandmother’s ghost at a kitchen table forty-nine years later
• A village that has known, for centuries, exactly who lives in the manor on the cliff
• HEA guaranteed—with a wedding on Saint Agatha’s Day and a baby in the epilogue

Perfect for readers of Lily Mayne, Scarlett St. Clair, Zoe Ashwood, Tiffany Roberts, and anyone who has wanted a gothic monster romance where the monster is in the cathedral itself.