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A Fae's Guide to Tactical Botany: A Monster Brides Romance
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Expected 30 Nov 25Never 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.
Ethan has one 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, but 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?
Monstrous grooms and beastly brides? Don't be afraid of falling in love… it's super-natural! Explore the entire Monster Brides series, one tantalizing happily-ever-after at a time!
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.
Ethan has one 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, but 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?
Monstrous grooms and beastly brides? Don't be afraid of falling in love… it's super-natural! Explore the entire Monster Brides series, one tantalizing happily-ever-after at a time!
Kindle Edition
Expected publication November 30, 2025
About the author
Ellen B. O'Brien
4 books8 followersEllen B. O’Brien writes spicy romance novels with heat, heart, humor, and run-on sentences galore. She prefers to write stories set in the modern world, often in the paranormal, monster, and fantasy romance subgenres, and enjoys exploring themes of trauma and recovery, creativity, neurodivergence, family, and flying. Currently available are Monsoon, a long contemporary fantasy romance novel that answers the age-old question of whether it counts as being "caught in the rain" if a water fae caught you there on purpose, and Bites on Bourbon, a vampire romance novelette about a buttoned-up engineering grad student and a cheeky vampire shopgirl set in 1994 New Orleans. Upcoming works are Whiskey Pooka Foxtrot, a spicy monster romance available October 1, 2025, and A Fae's Guide to Tactical Botany, a contemporary fantasy romance set in the same magical modern world as Monsoon, which will be released on November 15, 2025. She has other works in progress featuring such creatures as orcs, artists, mothwomen, giants, more fae, maybe an alligator, non-denominational angels, librarians, and lawyers. More information about Ellen B's plans for world domination through unhinged smut can be found on her website https://EllenBAuthor.com
She also provides editing, illustration, and design services under her mundane name Bridget Engman Wilde. In her personal life, she makes jewelry, reads manga, embroiders, crochets, welds, cosplays, coddles her succulents, and enjoys Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is also proud to have single-mommed three children to kind, clever, sarcastic adulthood.
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She also provides editing, illustration, and design services under her mundane name Bridget Engman Wilde. In her personal life, she makes jewelry, reads manga, embroiders, crochets, welds, cosplays, coddles her succulents, and enjoys Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is also proud to have single-mommed three children to kind, clever, sarcastic adulthood.
Join Ellen B's newsletter for ARC opportunities, free stories, news, art, and more! https://ellenb.eo.page/pf1z7
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