The Gargoyle's Gaze of Notre-Dame (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798294616748)

After the fire, Notre-Dame begins to bleed ink.

Juliette Marchand returns to Paris to work the restoration, and to outrun the grief that followed her home. The cathedral is still wrapped in scaffolding, still scarred, still watched. On the north tower she finds a single gargoyle weeping a black, viscous tear that will not dry, will not clean, and will not explain itself.

The stain leads Juliette into a space the plans do not acknowledge: a sealed chamber where confession has pooled for centuries, where stone holds voices the way paper holds ink. The cathedral does not simply remember. It sorts, stores, and punishes. The more Juliette listens, the more the past crowds into the present, and the more her own memory begins to misalign, like a page being corrected while she is still reading it.

Camile Roche, lead conservator and hard skeptic, insists there is a physical cause. Père Doucet, a priest with too many locked doors, warns her to stop digging. But the structure wants a witness, and it has already chosen her.

To uncover what was sealed in 1848, Juliette must pry open the choir wall, name the dead, and decide what confession costs when the building itself is the judge.

The Gargoyle's Gaze of Notre-Dame is gothic, architecture-driven supernatural horror, set inside a living cathedral where silence is currency and truth leaves a stain.