After discovering rare gargoyles mysteriously positioned inside an ancient church being restored in the small English town of Atwelle the architect Don Whitby and a young research historian Margeaux Wood realize that the gargoyles are predicting the bizarre murders that are occurring in the town. Five hundred years earlier when the church is being built two powerful families in Atwelle are contesting control of the region in the delicate backdrop of King Henry VIIIs dispute with the Pope over th