The Avatars: Beginnings — Lisa Blackwood

When Gregory, a gargoyle and Avatar to the gods, wakes to a new life, he finds the female half of his soul is missing. He soon learns she has been captured by their oldest enemy -- the Lady of Battles. And that ancient rival has forced his soulmate to be reborn as a vulnerable child. To save her, Gregory will risk everything even if he must pay the ultimate price for his loyalty.


(Author's Note--Beginnings is a short story prequel. It takes place twelve years before the events of Stone's Kiss)