This book had a lot of promise. I liked the premise and I liked their tree tattoos and how, as the leaves fell off the tree, the hero was closer and closer to dying. However, I never felt the love...the burning, obsessive love that the hero should feel for the heroine in romance novels IMO. Yes, the hero wanted and needed the heroine, but I didn't feel that it was because of love, but because that without her, he would loose all of his leaves and die.