With his blue eyes and heart-melting smile, Gavin could have been made-to-order to entice Tearlach, a lonely tree spirit. But the human has been enticed--stolen from snow-buried Minneapolis to the Scottish Highlands by Tearlach's darag, the ancient oak tree of which he is the living spirit.Tearlach is trapped within the darag by the terrible memory of his own death--hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago, but as recent to him as his last heartbeat. And if desire for the handsome human fails to tempt him out, spirit and oak are both doomed.Gavin is more than willing to be Tearlach's temptation. But Gavin has a history of his own--a hopeless dream, one impossible relationship after another. Surely a perfect lover, a sensual tree spirit living in the shadow of a holy mountain half a world away, is another unattainable dream. Can he expect Tearlach to trust his heart when he doesn't trust it himself?A Romantica® male/male paranormal erotic romance from Ellora's Cave