title: Blood from a Stone
author: Lucas, Cynthia
description: NOMINEE: 2013 RONE AWARDS - Best Paranormal indtale.com
  2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards Quarter Finalist Review: 'This is a wonderful excerpt and apart from a few very minor issues with POV shifts, the major problem I had wasn't with content but with wondering why this hasn't been picked up by a publisher yet. This seems to be gearing up for the type of read that PNR lovers will crave, so I'll be surprised if this doesn't go far in the competition.
  5 Star Featured Review: "....a unique story that will make the reader angry, sad, happy, and tearful, all while anxiously turning the pages. It also teaches one to believe in the human spirit, and the power of redemption. Ms. Lucas has written a fun, witty, and yet emotionally rich and captivating story!" Tonya Smalley - InD'Tale Magazine indtale.com
  What happens when Samson Bellmaine, a wealthy, handsome womanizer in the year 1511, breaks the heart and trust of a young lady who'd been his friend since childhood? He soon finds himself cursed by her angry, pagan priestess mother, and is now doomed to sit out an endless existence as a stone gargoyle...his body as cold and devoid of love as the heart that beat inside his once-human chest. Awakening only once every fifty years for one month's time, and after searching to no avail for the cure that will break the seemingly unbreakable spell, he's grown content to spend his short time as a man enjoying all the marvels and hedonistic pleasures the modern world has to offer; first in his native Europe, and then in America where he'd settled to sit out the long decades atop an old church. The year is 2011 and upon Awakening, Samson soon meets Willow Dalton...a smart, pretty nurse who works in the children's ward of a local hospital. As love warms his heart, and he discovers a mysterious side-effect of his condition; one that may hold the key to his freedom and may also cause him to lose her forever, he is now in a race against time...determined to stay at her side, and daring to hope that after five centuries he will finally find a way to break the curse before next full moon rises and he's turned from man to stone once more.