Witch's Gift: Purple Oasis, #8.5

By Laura Greenwood

Maddy has always wanted to tell her best friend how she feels, and now she might finally get a chance.

 

With Christmas approaching, tea witch Maddy wants to host a tea gifting ceremony and recapture some of the festive spirit lost to the apocalypse, and if it means getting to spend more time with the best friend she wishes could be more, then that's just a benefit. 

 

Elise harboured feelings for Maddy for years but never had the courage to tell her. But when her secret is almost revealed, she knows she has to do something about it. 

 

Can the two of them bring some festive cheer to the oasis without completely losing their hearts?

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Witch's Gift is a side story to the Purple Oasis paranormal romance series. It includes a sweet f/f romance involving two tea witch best friends.

If you enjoy light paranormal romances, coming-of-age storylines, post-apocalyptic settings, sweet moments, guaranteed happy endings, and casual magic systems, then start the Purple Oasis series today with Witch's Trust.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twin Souls Publishing
• Release date: Jan 10, 2023
• ISBN: 9798201191702

Laura Greenwood

Laura is a USA Today Bestselling Author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy romance. When she's not writing, she drinks a lot of tea, tries to resist French macarons, and works towards a diploma in Egyptology. She lives in the UK, where most of her books are set. Laura specialises in quick reads, with healthy relationships and consent positive moments regardless of if she's writing light-hearted romance, mythology-heavy urban fantasy, or anything in between. You can find a full book list and more information on her website, or in The Paranormal Council Facebook Group. Happy Reading!

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Witch's Gift

Witch's Gift

A Purple Oasis Story

Arizona Tape

Laura Greenwood

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Epilogue

Also by Arizona Tape

About the Author

Also by Laura Greenwood

About Laura Greenwood

© 2022 Laura Greenwood & Arizona Tape

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Blurb

With Christmas approaching, tea witch Maddy wants to host a tea gifting ceremony and recapture some of the festive spirit lost to the apocalypse, and if it means getting to spend more time with the best friend she wishes could be more, then that's just a benefit.

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Elise harboured feelings for Maddy for years but never had the courage to tell her. But when her secret is almost revealed, she knows she has to do something about it.

Can the two of them bring some festive cheer to the oasis without completely losing their hearts?

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Witch's Gift is part of the Purple Oasis series. It is a standalone f/f paranormal romance set in a post-apocalyptic world that's starting to rebuild.

One

Maddy

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The sky darkened, causing me to look up and try to work out if it was going to stay dry, or if we were about to be subjected to a storm of some kind. With the nip in the air, it was probably that any rain would come down as snow, and while I'd once thought of it snowing as a magical seasonal experience, I'd come to a different understanding of what the weather truly meant during the past few years.

And even more so when I knew that the plants in front of me might not survive the coming winter.

I looked around for Matisse, but couldn't see the frost nymph anywhere in sight. Hopefully, that was a good thing and it meant that the next few hours weren't going to be a risk to the tea plants.

Then again, perhaps he wasn't here because he'd exhausted himself trying to keep the cold away from the crops. I couldn't see Amelia either, which meant that my fellow tea witch was likely looking after him. A job she particularly seemed to enjoy.

I kneeled down in front of the small tea bush. Before the apocalypse, I'd never touched a tea plant in real life, and I was pretty sure I'd only ever seen them in photos too. But now it was different. The Purple Oasis plantation meant that I got to feel the leaves through my fingers every day, and that I was important to the care of the precious resource. Tending to the plants didn't give me the same surge of power from being on the field as when I drank tea, but I could still feel the magic in the plantation, even with all the plants wrapped up for winter. Or maybe that was just my imagination because I knew how important the plants were to the oasis and to tea witches like me.

I readjusted some straw around the