When magic and destiny collide, the result is perfectly wicked…When her spark of magic failed to ignite, Meghan Nightshade fled Salem, Massachusetts in humiliation. After ten years following a solitary path, a deep sense of foreboding sends her racing home, where she can't decide if the tall, dark, and protective man hovering at her grandmother's side is blessing or curse.Eathan Callaghan makes her body burn with need. Even his scent—of earth and freshly-cut wood—is a call stronger than a newly budding plant.Eathan's built a comfortable niche in Salem, and no one will bother its highly insular witch community, not on his watch. But when he investigates who's lurking inside Earth's Embrace herbal shop, he doesn't expect to find a woman with moonlight dancing on her flawless skin and sparkling in her midnight hair. Or that she'd try to scrape him off like an old layer of paint.The heat between them threatens to melt Meghan's resolve to once again put Salem in her rear-view mirror. But when tragedy strikes and a young fledgling witch's life is at stake, Meghan must decide if it's time to confront the past—and show everyone who doubted her just how powerful she has become.
