Two Corks in a Curse (Paperback)

Some people are born to suffer.

At least that's what Tempranillo "Tempe" Verdejo believes. Between her atypical brain, her green witch magic, and her nearly non-existent family, she's gotten used to doing everything herself. Inheriting her gran's once thriving, but now falling apart, winery wasn't on her life plan lists, but neither was being an orphan. Armed with a business degree she hates and zero customer service skills, Tempe's ready to make the best of it... until she meets her smoking hot new co-owner-literally.

Draigus Daugherty has been avoiding people for seventy five years. When his godfather by blood pact and Tempe's gran want to retire, they offered him the winery as a co-owner with the fiery, impulsive, sexy, and wonderfully awkward witch. In exchange for surviving a year, Draigus will have repaid his debt and perhaps finally break a dying witch's curse... one that physically rips him apart every full moon.

But while Tempe is fighting her attraction to the dragon shifter, convinced he serves no purpose beside annoying her, Draigus will not stop until she gives into the pull.

Forever.

A near-death secret, history of distrust, and no escape from the other, has placed these two at odds with Tempe at the center. Keeping the business alive might not be nearly as hard as surviving each other.

This is the second book in the Huckleberry Hollow Urban Romantasy series. It has spice, fire, sarcasm, found family, and a whole lot of poli criticism. Welcome back to Huckleberry Hollow, Idaho!

Noelle Rider is the romantic half of Perry Dog Publishing. Though E. N. Crane books always have a romantic subplot, Noelle Rider gets to fully explore spice, connection, letting go, and learning to trust. They are awkward, funny, and never sweet. Like all books she writes, Noelle continues her dedication to plus-size, caffeine addicted, sarcastic, neurodivergent characters under this pen name and would never let them tell their story without an animal sidekick that steals the show. Currently exploring fantasy romance, the available titles are filled with magic, tyranny and a healthy dose of social and political commentary. She currently lives in Boise with her C-suite canines and unpaid husband intern.