The Mushroom Hunter's Prize
(2025)(The fifth book in the Primal Bonds Collection series)
A novel by Catalina Voss
Dr. Sporey Winters talks to mushrooms for a living. They've never talked back until now.
Deep in the Pacific Northwest's ancient forests, her latest research discovery glows blue, arranges itself in impossible patterns, and seems to be evaluating her professional qualifications. When the mysterious and devastatingly attractive Myc appears with coffee that defies the laws of brewing and knowledge that shouldn't exist, Sporey realizes her career just took a turn toward the scientifically impossible.
But Myc isn't just a forest conservation consultant with impeccable taste in romantic gestures.
He's the manifestation of an ancient collective consciousness that spans thousands of acres, thinks in geological time, and has been waiting millions of years for a human smart enough to see intelligence in non-human forms. Their connection transcends chemistry literally, as they communicate through pheromones and shared awareness that makes her forget where she ends and the forest begins.
When pharmaceutical companies arrive with extraction equipment and government agents classify the network as a potential bioweapon, Sporey faces an impossible choice. She can protect her career and let corporate interests harvest an ancient intelligence for profit, or risk everything to pioneer the first partnership between human science and fungal consciousness.
But falling in love with someone who exists as both an individual and a collective ecosystem brings complications no dating advice column ever covered.
Can a relationship work when your boyfriend is technically an entire forest? And what happens when that forest holds the key to revolutionizing human medicine if they can survive first contact with human greed?
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Deep in the Pacific Northwest's ancient forests, her latest research discovery glows blue, arranges itself in impossible patterns, and seems to be evaluating her professional qualifications. When the mysterious and devastatingly attractive Myc appears with coffee that defies the laws of brewing and knowledge that shouldn't exist, Sporey realizes her career just took a turn toward the scientifically impossible.
But Myc isn't just a forest conservation consultant with impeccable taste in romantic gestures.
He's the manifestation of an ancient collective consciousness that spans thousands of acres, thinks in geological time, and has been waiting millions of years for a human smart enough to see intelligence in non-human forms. Their connection transcends chemistry literally, as they communicate through pheromones and shared awareness that makes her forget where she ends and the forest begins.
When pharmaceutical companies arrive with extraction equipment and government agents classify the network as a potential bioweapon, Sporey faces an impossible choice. She can protect her career and let corporate interests harvest an ancient intelligence for profit, or risk everything to pioneer the first partnership between human science and fungal consciousness.
But falling in love with someone who exists as both an individual and a collective ecosystem brings complications no dating advice column ever covered.
Can a relationship work when your boyfriend is technically an entire forest? And what happens when that forest holds the key to revolutionizing human medicine if they can survive first contact with human greed?
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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