The Complete Gargoyle & Sorceress Tales
Books 1-9
Lisa Blackwood
Table of Contents
Sorceress Awakening
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Epilogue
Sorceress Rising
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Sorceress Hunting
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
SORCERESS AT WAR
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Sorceress Enraged
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Epilogue
Legacy of the Sorceress
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
SORCERY & FIREDRAKES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Scion of the Sorceress
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Sorceress Eternal
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Epilogue
The Complete Gargoyle & Sorceress Boxed Set
Copyright © 2020 by Lisa Smeaton
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Sorceress Awakening (Originally titled Stone’s Kiss) © November 2011(1st edition) 2016 (2nd edition) January 2020 (3rd edition) by Lisa Smeaton
Sorceress Rising © 2016 by Lisa Smeaton Previously Published as Stone’s Song © 2014
Sorceress Hunting © 2016 by Lisa Smeaton. Previously published as Stone’s Divide © 2015
Sorceress at War © 2017 by Lisa Smeaton
Sorceress Enraged © 2017 by Lisa Smeaton
Legacy of the Sorceress © 2018 by Lisa Smeaton
Sorcery & Firedrakes © 2019 by Lisa Smeaton
Scion of the Sorceress © 2019 by Lisa Smeaton
Sorceress Eternal © 2019 by Lisa Smeaton
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EDITION: 10/16/2020
OTHER BOOKS BY LISA BLACKWOOD
Gargoyle & Sorceress: Legacy of Shadows
Sworn to Shadows
In Deception’s Shadow Series (Epic Fantasy Romance)
Betrayal’s Price
Herd Mistress
Maiden’s Wolf
Death’s Queen
The Prince’s Gryphon (forthcoming)
Ishtar’s Legacy Series (Epic Fantasy Romance)
Ishtar’s Blade
The Blade’s Beginning (short story)
Blade’s Honor
Blade’s Destiny
The Blade’s Shadow
First Queen of the Gryphons
The Anunnaki’s Blade (forthcoming)
Huntress vs Huntsman (Epic Fantasy Romance)
Master of the Hunt
Night Huntress
Dragon Archer
Soul Mage (forthcoming)
SORCERESS AWAKENING
A dryad sorceress with no memory. An immortal gargoyle with a dark secret. An evil demi-goddess with plans to use them to conquer both the Magic and the Mortal Realms. Lillian’s ordinary life is about to go off the rails.
When Lillian finds herself facing off against demons out of mythology, help comes from an unlikely source—the stone gargoyle who has been sleeping in her garden for the last twelve years.
After the battle, Lillian learns the humans she thought were her family are actually a powerful coven of witches at war with the demonic Riven. Lillian is something more than human, a Sorceress and Avatar to the gods. The gargoyle has been her protector for many lifetimes, but when she was still a child, troubles in their homeland forced him to flee with her to the human world.
But something from her childhood has followed them to this world.
In a heartbeat, her ordinary life becomes far more complicated, and if her overprotective guardian is to be believed, there’s an evil demigoddess just waiting for the chance to enslave them both.
Sorceress Awakening
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Chapter 1
WHAT? CAN’T I BLEED to death in peace? It probably won’t even take that long.
At least that was Lillian’s guess going by the amount of blood soaking her top and one leg of her jeans. But apparently, the leader of this strange crew was in a hurry and wasn’t going to allow her to die peacefully. He and his men had chased her deeper into the spa’s gardens for some unwholesome purpose. In desperation, she’d sought shelter in the maze with the hope of losing them within its twisting corridors.
No such luck.
They’d followed her and now had her trapped to finish off at their leisure.
And worse, from what she’d already gathered, fate had decided the normal kind of horrible death people sometimes inflicted upon each other was going to be too mundane for her.
The strangers hunting her wanted something else. Something impossible.
They wanted her magic.
Magic of all things.
Well, that was going to be difficult, wasn’t it?
Magic didn’t exist.
She’d seen some weird shit since they’d first accosted her in the gardens outside the maze. But the way the small ring of standing stones had flared with blue, crackling light at the first stranger’s approach? That could have been some fancy magician’s trick.
Lillian peered around the tree’s trunk to track her assailants. The leader—Alexander he’d said his name was—now stood a few feet away, studying the shadows under the redwood tree, hunting her exact location among the dense foliage of the lower branches.
Seeking deeper shadows, she shifted her weight and winced as pain stabbed through her side.
Instinctively, she pressed one hand against the worst o
f her injuries. The pressure only made the wound throb like a bitch.
While some of the other things she’d seen could have been a trick, the shrapnel from the exploding stone ring had certainly been real enough to make her bleed.
And she wasn’t the only one bleeding.
She turned her gaze to the rivulets of liquid bleeding down the tree’s trunk.
If the exploding ring of standing stones had been a parlor trick, they’d sure as shit one-upped themselves with the freaking bleeding tree stunt.
If the tree was a tree at all.
And what else was more than it seemed?
As a flash of insight bloomed in her mind, she glanced away from Alexander and the bleeding tree to swiftly seek out the familiar statue of the gargoyle where he sat fifteen feet away.
She studied him speculatively.
He still crouched unmoving on his stone perch with his wings mantled around him like a cloak, strength and majesty in his every carefully hewed and sculpted muscle. Could her favorite stone companion with his broad shoulders, burly muzzle, curving fangs, and deadly looking horns be more than a mere statue?
It was only as she narrowed her eyes that she noticed the strange runes glowing on his chest and arms.
Lillian shook her head, trying to clear her vision, but the marks were still there.
Perhaps the gargoyle was another kind of protection like the stone circle had been.
Could it be so simple?
Could killing these intruders be as easy as getting to the statue and triggering some protection?
What the hell am I thinking? she scolded herself. Magic? Are you admitting magic might be real?
Fuck it. She could worry for her sanity later. She needed to try something. Now. Before it was too late. She was already dead, her vision beginning to go gray at the edges. She was losing too much blood to live, but perhaps she could still protect her family.
The stone ring had done a number on Alexander and his henchmen. If she were lucky, the gargoyle would unleash even greater destruction.
Gathering her will, she straightened. Doggedly, she lurched toward the statue. The ground seemed more uneven than she remembered. Three steps later, she tripped over a piece of broken stone from the ring and fell to her knees.
As she forced herself back up, a sense of something she could only describe as powerful and old flowed through her body, guiding her movements. She surged the rest of the way to her feet and stumbled toward the gargoyle.
With a last, desperate strength, she crawled up the pedestal and over the gargoyle’s stone legs. Protected on three sides by his body and wings, she collapsed forward into his lap. She wanted to close her eyes and know no more pain or suffering—to know the peace of cold stone.
Again, those strange instincts stirred within her. All she could think to call it was power: old power, deep and familiar.
Her body tingled.
Was this what dying felt like?
Was this her soul preparing to leave?
Such a strange sensation. It didn’t seem right, dying like this. A useless death. Never to know why her world had been turned on its head.