Rita the Gargoyle is the first book in the Stone Child series, a dark fantasy about monsters who wake up and discover they have souls.

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When Sir Mary Ignatius, a devout lady knight sworn to righteousness, rides into the mountains to save a “kidnapped girl,” she believes she is answering a simple call. Annabelle has been taken by a beast. A gargoyle. A creature of claws and cathedral shadows.

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That creature is Rita.

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But the mountain does not hold a helpless captive. It holds a predator in silk and smiles.

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Annabelle is no damsel. She is ancient hunger wrapped in innocence, a manipulator who feeds on devotion and wears goodness like a borrowed dress. And when Sir Mary storms the cave with steel and scripture, she does not rescue a victim.

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She interrupts a ritual.

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What follows is not a battle between knight and monster, but an unraveling. Rita, carved from stone and raised for violence, begins to question the script she was given. Sir Mary, armed with faith and fury, finds her convictions tested in the dark. And Annabelle… Annabelle plays them both like harp strings drawn too tight.

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As the truth surfaces, alliances fracture. The line between savior and destroyer blurs. And Rita, who was built to be a guardian of something far older than churches or kingdoms, must decide what she truly is:

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A weapon.

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A warden.

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Or something terrifyingly new.

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Rita the Gargoyle blends gothic atmosphere, psychological tension, and mythic stakes into a story about identity, corruption, and the dangerous grace of choosing who you become.

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Stone can crack.

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Faith can rot.

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And monsters can wake up. ???

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Rita the Gargoyle

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