Danielle has always believed that there are souls in the stone she carves. She has sensed the presence of intelligent spirits that guide her hands and allow her to reveal the beauty hidden within these bones of the earth. However, when a massive and mysterious obsidian gargoyle she saves from a landfill becomes a dark and dangerous obsession, she teeters on a thin line between madness and surrender. In six hundred years, Grellix has never desired a life- mate, never loved someone enough to ask for the sacrifice that is required to become bound forever. But Danielle is different. When a sculptor seduced by the very earth she carves meets a darkly brooding Guardian longing for love, their passion explodes in a fiery inferno that melts a heart of stone!