Rock Hard Gargoyle by Maggie Mayhem

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Stuck between a rock-hard Gargoyle and a hard place.

Oops! I accidentally painted a target on myself by crashing a dragon’s wedding.

After a break-in at my apartment, I get my very own security detail. Cool right? Wrong. The big, brooding beast assigned to protect me 24/7 is the very same cocky guard who caught me at the wedding!

The owner of Redrock Protective Services, Grayson is massive, powerful, and totally intimidating. Arrogant, too. Did I mention his slow, sultry smile or the wickedly possessive glint in his steel-gray eyes? Something inhuman flickers there, and I realize, too late, that I’ve caught the attention of a monster.

He vows to protect me from danger. His solution? Steal me away to his gorgeous penthouse high above the city.

I should run before I do something stupid, like fall for the growly gargoyle. But I can’t. Evil lurks in the shadows waiting for me. Now, the only thing that will save me is my very own possessive monster.

The gargoyle and the sassy seamstress!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰😎😄😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Shelby – she is a fashion designer and owns a made to order dress shop that caters to the curvy and vertically challenged. A few months ago, a bride came in wanting a fireproof wedding dress and cloak. The wedding was the first high profile monster/human wedding. The groom was a real live fire breathing dragon. A few years ago, the wall had lifted, and humans now knew about and mingled with monsters. Shelby had been struggling to pay the bills since her cheating ex had slandered her name and had his friends write fake bad reviews. This wedding would get her name and brand out there and help bring her back into the black.

The Hero: Grayson – he is a gargoyle and owns Redrock Protective Services. He is huge, hot and nearly indestructible, perfect for guarding fragile bodies and performing security services at the biggest wedding of the year. When the wall fell monsters became known to humans. The wall was a magical spell that hid monsters from the human world. It was basically a glamour that made them look human and it encompassed the entire globe. One day, it just blinked out and monsters were seen as they were. Some, like Grayson still used glamour, since they didn’t look as human as others.

The Story: Shelby’s rich and famous client needs a last-minute delivery to her wedding, the vitally important cloak that goes with the wedding gown. When Shelby arrives at the event, she barrels into the huge security guard. The guard, who Shelby can tell is a monster hidden behind a glamour, won’t let her in because he thinks she is a reporter out to get some pictures of the wedding. Grayson eventually let Shelby in when the bridesmaid recognized her, and he couldn’t get Shelby off his mind.

I love monster romance and gargoyles are some of my favorite monsters. Who wouldn’t like a huge, muscled, invincible guy with rock hard abs who is all about guarding and protecting? There was a good storyline about a council of wizards who were having a bunch of women with latent magic kidnapped in order to use their magic to put the wall back up. They needed a lot of magic for a spell that would cover the entire world and the women would end up dying in the process. They try to kidnap Shelby.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Michelle Sparks and Troy Duran. Michelle has a soft feminine voice and is very expressive in her narration. Troy Duran is one of my top favorite male narrators. He has a deep sexy voice and is great at doing different voices for different characters.

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