Unpacking in her new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed alchemist Zoe Faust can?t help but notice she?s picked up a stowaway. Dorian Robert-Houdin is a living, breathing three-and-half-foot gargoyle ? not to mention a master of French cuisine ? and he needs Zoe?s expertise to decipher a centuries-old text. Zoe isn?t so sure she wants to reopen her alchemical past . . . until the dead man on her porch leaves her no choice.,
