Old Flames and New Fortunes by Sarah Hogle EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sarah Hogle
- Language: English
- Genre: Witch Romances
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BLACKTHORN:
Our path is beset with difficulties.
Twin purple roses, one bud closed. Love at first sight.
A two-leafed red carnation. I must see you soon.
Eight-and-a-quarter inches of grape ivy. I desire you above all else. The
magic hums to let me know I’m on the right track, and I smile, busily
fulfilling a pickup order at my luckiest time of day.
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It is late April, when flowers have begun to swallow up the stone walls,
when it’s just warm enough that I can take my coffee in the courtyard at
dawn and watch blue chase pink from the sky, stars popping like soap
bubbles. My world is alive with the fragrance of freshly turned soil and
shivering mist, chickens clucking around my ankles and eating the bugs on
the brick pavers before the bugs can eat my crocuses.
To my back is the carriage house I’ve lived in for the past three years,
built in the French country style, with sandy stone and white shutters
decorated with moss and ivy. Rows of elevated flower beds burst with riots
of hellebores, bleeding hearts, forget-me-nots, bluebells. This courtyard,
with its five-foot-tall perimeter and the witch hazel tree that’s even older
than the neighborhood, flowering quince with peach blooms, the shock of
yellow sunrise forsythia—is all my kingdom.
My heart tap-dances to a song in my soul, inherited from my
grandmother, who inherited it from hers, and yes, I can believe it. Curious
tourists in my family’s shop ask me frequently: Do you believe it, truly?
I reach for buttercups—What golden radiance is yours!—but catch my
hand drifting, landing inexplicably on blackthorn: Our path is beset with
difficulties. My hand jumps back.
“No, it is not,” I tell the flowers sternly, plucking a buttercup instead.
“Your path is simple and happy, and ends in a September wedding, just like
Cecelia dreams.” Cecelia, one of my regulars, is determined to turn her
boyfriend into a husband. Of course, my flowers won’t force him to
propose. They’ll merely spark an idea in his mind, if magic agrees with the
pairing.
The spell is informed by the flowers’ traditional symbolism and
how each flower reacts to the others. The twin purple roses are
representative of how they met, the carnation expresses urgency, and the ivy
symbolizes how Cecelia feels. They tell a special story, one imbued with
magic to help spur on Cecelia’s wishes:
Once upon a time soon to come,
Gustav will happen to be ten minutes early for work, so he’ll decide to walk
the long way around, passing a jewelry shop. He’ll glance in the window,
and right there in the front, he’ll notice a gem that’ll remind him of his
beloved Cecelia. Now, magic can tempt Gustav to the shop, but whether he
chooses to walk inside is his own business.
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