A gargoyle imprisoned.<br /><b>Captured, starved and blinded, Tas hates humans.</b>&nbsp;For eighty agonizing years, he&rsquo;s plotted all the gruesome ways to exact his vengeance. Then one day his captors make a fatal mistake. When the door to his cage opens, he&rsquo;s ready to destroy the human on the other side.<br /><br />But a different&nbsp;<b>instinct takes over</b>&nbsp;when he scents the female. His mouth waters and&nbsp;<b>his fangs ache</b>, demanding he make the fearless female his.<br /><br />A single mom, desperate to save her kid.<br />Juniper&nbsp;<b>owes a lot of money to a very bad man</b>&nbsp;and unless she does what he wants, he&rsquo;ll hurt her kid.<br /><br />To clear her debt, all she has to do is drive a van and not ask questions. But when she hears a voice in the back, she realizes she may not only be a thief but also a kidnapper, and that&rsquo;s where she draws the line.<br /><br />What she finds in the back isn&rsquo;t the loot she expected, but it also isn&rsquo;t a person.<br /><br /><b>It&rsquo;s a gargoyle&hellip; who intends to claim her as his mate.</b><br /><br />_______<br />Taken for Granite is a standalone novel in the collaborative series the Khargals of Duras, featuring a grumpy gargoyle and an HEA.<br /><br />A thousand years ago, a Khargal scouting party left Duras, only to crash on a planet called Earth.<br /><br />Injured and outnumbered, the stranded Khargals hid among stone effigies and observed the slow evolution of the planet&rsquo;s primitive inhabitants. With no means of returning to Duras, they watched from their shadowy perches and faded into legend, becoming the mythical gargoyles.<br /><br />Until today. Long after any hope for rescue had died, the distress signal has finally been answered.<br /><br />It&rsquo;s time to go home.