New Release: PLANTWISE

 

Arden sensed the thrumming of what she could only describe asjoy, pulsing through the ground, spreading outward from the massive old oakwhere he sat. A new perfume filled the air, constantly changing, neverlingering long enough for her to describe it. With Glynna close beside her, shefollowed that thrumming, that perfume, through fields bursting with emeraldlife, to her favorite stream, and the oak where she liked to sit on a widebranch and daydream and let the trees and fields and flowers sing to her.

She stepped around the oak and saw the man. For two heartbeatsshe was startled, but then she knew who he was. Outwardly, he was just a thinyoung man with a thick cap of nut-brown hair, skin a shade lighter, green eyes,a thin dusting of beard, and slightly dusty traveling clothes of roughspun andleather. His smile wiped away her momentary trepidation and made her feelbreathless as she went to her knees next to him.

“Don’t leave Westerland, dearheart,” he murmured.

“I don’t want to, but if my father …” She flushed hot andcouldn’t meet his smiling eyes. “Am I being silly?”

“It’s never silly to love, to join your soul in delight andabandon to another soul.” He winked. “I’ve only recently been blessed with thatgift, and it takes my breath away whenever I think of her. I’m constantlywondering how I could be so lucky that she loves me.” He laughed, and Ardenlaughed with him.