Never go up against a botanist when tenure is on the line.
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A Fae’s Guide to Tactical Botany is a story of grief and recovery, joy after loss, with an enemies-to-lovers vibe, a damsel not in distress, a knight in not-so-shining armor, academic ambitions, bees, siege towers, drones, a lime green Jeep, cacti, mead, carpentry, yearning, smut, and one padded particolor codpiece. Jump to Content Warnings.
Never go up against a botanist when tenure is on the line.
Mara has spent nearly five years in the high hills of the Sonoran Desert mourning, taking comfort in the creation of a glorious memorial garden of cacti and wildflowers. It’s perfect and peaceful…until a lime green Jeep arrives and its driver settles in for the long haul. He’s large, pale, and annoyingly attractive—enough reason to want him gone—but when he dares to take one of her flowers, she declares war.
Cover art by Kit Fox
Ethan has one goal: to achieve tenure. The botanical anomaly he spotted on recent satellite photos seems like the perfect field project to wow his dean, and also give him some time to process his recent “amicable” breakup. The last thing he expects is to encounter a strange, beautiful woman who can manipulate the earth and plants to keep him away from the desert Eden he needs to study. But he’s never been a quitter, and soon he’s laying siege to the unlikeliest fortress he could have imagined, using every tool he can muster to break through Mara’s defenses.
It’s a battle of wits and of bodies, and Ethan can’t help but surrender his heart to the mysterious green-eyed warrior princess. But his academic reputation is at stake, and if he doesn’t return with the data he needs, he can kiss tenure goodbye, and possibly his job. And as their fraught encounters start to steam up the windows of his Jeep, he realizes he must fight the ghost of her dead husband to claim the victory he craves.
What’s a knight in plastic armor to do?
Tropes & Featured Content
Enemies to Lovers (Light)
Slow Burn, Medium Spice
Romancing the Widow
He Falls First
Hurt/Comfort
STEM MMC
Weaponized Cacti
Society for Creative Anachronism
Elemental Magic
Arizona Setting
Yearning
If I Had a Nickel for Every Time I Wrote A Book In Which An MC Injured Their Ankle I’d Have Two Nickels, And I’ve Only Written Four Books So Far. That is 50% Ankle Injury Incidence. Please Walk Carefully, O My Readers.
This book is not for everybody! Please protect your mental health.
This book is intended for adult readers. It contains explicit MF sexual content, profanity, alcohol consumption, grief for past bereavement, and physical injury, among other things that an individual reader might find troubling. Please contact me if you have specific concerns.