Book 4

Start with Nevermore Bookstore. Everyone thinks Lyra McKendrick
is magic. She's not, for the record, just a lawyer who predicted a few
outcomes that were blown out of proportion in the robust
Townsend Harbor rumor mill. After a messy breakup in which she
lost her thriving practice, she's returned to her hometown to lick her
wounds and is persuaded by a local town cook to capitalize on her
cringe-worthy reputation by running the local new-age shop. How hard could
it be to sell chakra-cleansing crystals, libraries worth of tarot cards, crops of
candles, and enough incense to choke out Willie Nelson's entire entourage?
When one of Townsend Harbor's many ancient trees threaten her plumbing,
she engages Cypress Forrester, aka "Cy the Tree Guy" to rid her of the
problem. Instead, he seems intent on becoming one. Cy's family have been
arborists and healers for generations, and they're firm believers in the
mysticism of trees, among other things. When she hires him to chop down an
endangered tree to save her business, they find themselves on opposite ends of
a battle neither of them is willing to lose. As a man tethered by indigenous
roots to the earth, Cy immediately realizes Lyra is a woman who lives in her
head, which often disassociates her from her heart, body, and intuition. It's
how she always finds "practical" explanations for the series of unexplained,
serendipitous coincidences that keep thrusting them together. Alone. But Cy
knows better, and he realizes that he must tempt her out of her thoughts and
back into her body, and what better way to do that than by a thorough
seduction?