Tusks, Tulips, and Trouble

De: Cora Travis

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

He’s an orc who grows prize-winning flowers.
She inherited a garden full of chaos—and a reason to start over.
Only one of them can win the Golden Gourd.

Bramble Ironroot is an orc who prefers petunias to people.

A quiet, methodical champion gardener with ten consecutive festival wins, Bramble has built a peaceful life in Dewdrop Hollow where his greenhouse is orderly, his routine is predictable, and no one expects him to be gentle, poetic, or painfully bad at small talk. Plants are easier than people. Soil makes sense. Solitude is safe.

Then Poppy Brightwater moves in next door.

Bright, impulsive, and wildly underqualified, Poppy has inherited her grandmother’s neglected cottage—and the overgrown garden she loved more than anything. On a whim fueled by grief and stubborn hope, Poppy enters the town’s most competitive event: the Bloom & Bounty Festival.

She has enthusiasm. She has determination.
She does not have experience.

What she does have is an orc neighbor with perfect soil, impossible standards, and a talent for growing things he pretends he doesn’t want to share.

As gardening rivalry sparks across the fence line, reluctant lessons turn into quiet mornings, shared failures, and unexpected understanding. Beneath Bramble’s carefully cultivated distance is a heart that longs to be chosen. Beneath Poppy’s chaos is a strength rooted deeper than she ever knew.

And as the competition draws closer, both of them must decide what truly matters—winning the trophy they’ve set their hearts on… or risking everything for something that might finally grow into home.

A cozy fantasy monster romance filled with gentle magic, a soft-hearted orc hero, grumpy-sunshine neighbors-to-lovers chemistry, and a small town that believes love—like a garden—can bloom anywhere.