The Gargoyle's Last Delivery (The Night Market Covenants Series, #5)

A cursed delivery is turning a gargoyle courier to stone—one failed route at a time. Forensic accountant and cargo-claims examiner Mara Voss trusts numbers because people have proved far easier to manipulate.

So when gargoyle courier Rafe Calder arrives at Booth 13 with a black parcel that has already been delivered 412 times, she assumes the impossible route is hiding an ordinary fraud. The recipient—"The Seventh Witness"—appears in no registry. Every failed attempt sends the parcel back to Rafe and hardens more of his living-stone body.

Yet abandoning a lawful charge would violate everything he believes about honor, duty, and the work that defines him. To stop the route before Rafe's wings lock forever, Mara must follow a chain of altered records, rooftop bells, silver knots, and erased histories through Asterbridge's Night Market.

Rafe must decide how much of himself duty is allowed to consume. Their wary procedural partnership becomes a deeply physical, consent-centered attraction built on exact questions, honest answers, and the radical possibility that returning a burden can be an act of integrity.

But someone profits every time the delivery fails—and the parcel may contain a claim against the Night Market itself.

Reader Promise A mature human-woman/nonhuman-gargoyle romance between accomplished professional leads Medium heat, explicit consent, and no transformation into human form A fair-play cursed-parcel mystery driven by forensic and cargo-claims competence Rooftop urban fantasy, unusual non-fae magic, and suspense with limited graphic violence A secure recurring married-investigator team and a complete romantic HEA Each Night Market Covenant contains a complete mystery and a complete HEA, while reading in publication order delivers the strongest Black Ledger payoff.