Mane Hex by Milly Taiden

She reads endings. He feels like a beginning.

Lunaria Reed doesn’t do permanent. As a celestial witch who reads death in the stars, she learned young that love only leads to loss. She’s in Haven Shores for one job—fix a dead garden, leave by spring. Then the uptight mayor decides her garden needs supervising—and nobody warned her he’d look like a Greek statue in business casual. The way his voice drops when he says her name? Not helping her exit strategy.
Hux Holt is fine. Responsible. Definitely not broken just because his lion went silent years ago while everyone else found their mates. Then a dirt-smudged witch storms into his office and his lion wakes up starving. She’s temporary. She’s trouble. She’s a disaster in gardening gloves, and argues with him like she enjoys it. His lion is obsessed. He’s not far behind.
When the garden unearths a decades-old murder and a curse feeding on Hux’s family, running stops being an option. But between moonlit greenhouse nights and touches that feel like fate, staying might be the scariest thing Lunaria’s ever done.