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 A Touch Dazzled

Zodiac Cove: Book Five

 Sonia Hartl

Zodiac Cove Publishing LLC

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Copyright © 2023 by Sonia Hartl

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 A Short Recap

A Touch Magic: Zodiac Cove Book 1

Audrey and Wes grew up in Zodiac Cove with a legend that stated their island had been formed from
the sea by the gods and goddesses of the constellations as a gift for their human lovers. The children
born on the island, descendants of the zodiac, were gifted with magic. Until a curse that would sink
the island into the sea was unleashed. The descendants trapped the curse within a cave at the center of
the island, but they used all their magic to carry out the binding, held within twelve birthstones that
framed the cave’s entrance. Most of the original descendants left Zodiac Cove after losing their
magic. Three hundred years later, an earthquake hit the island, releasing the magic that had trapped the
curse. Audrey had been with Wes in the woods after he caught her skinny dipping in his hot spring
when the earthquake struck. Wes pushed her out of the way of a falling tree, and their touch ended up
activating their magic. Audrey’s was water-based weather manipulation, and Wes’s was lightning.
Their magic also came with the unexpected side effect of making them super horny.
The curse was also freed from the cave. According to the legend, it had four phases of destruction
before it would sink the island. First, it would attack the minds of magic users, then physically attack,
then trap them all on the island, then block out the sun, before finally sinking the island. Audrey and
Wes were mentally attacked by the curse’s smoke and had to learn how to use their magic to combat
it. Which wasn’t easy. Although Wes was in love with Audrey for over a decade, she used to date his
brother. Audrey hated Wes because she overheard him talking shit about her to his brother. Wes
thought she hated him because he told his brother to leave the island without her. But they couldn’t get
the side effects of their magic under control until they learned to trust each other. Slowly, they began
to let each other in until they had more control over their magic. Through working together, they
figured out there were twelve descendants of the zodiac on the island for the first time since the
 originals left, which was what triggered the earthquake and the magic being released to their human
hosts. They also figured out opposite signs, like themselves (Scorpio and Taurus) had to touch to
activate the magic because they worked like a battery, with a positive and negative end jump-starting
each other.
When they got to a point of trust with each other that they could reveal everything, Audrey finally
understood why Wes had said those things about her to his brother and understood that his brother
only asked Audrey out to stick it to Wes because he knew Wes was crazy about her. They spent the
night together and their bond grew more. After they discovered the original descendants had also
given up their memories to stop the curse, they began to understand that they weren’t meant to trap the
curse in the cave again. They were meant to use their magic to destroy it. So they battled the mental
attacks. They went up to the cave looking for clues on how to defeat the curse, and through a mental
mattack, the curse almost convinced Wes to give up his magic, which would’ve cost them the island.
enAudrey pulled him back from the mental attack due to the strong bond they now shared and they
nkdeclared their love for each other. When that happened, their powers combined.
of The curse attacked harder and tried to burn down the forest and sent Audrey’s grandma’s house
hattumbling into the sea off the cliffs, but Wes and Audrey ended up defeating the curse’s attempt to burn
eirdown the island. Wes asked Audrey to move in with him and the curse made an appearance on the
hebeach, suggesting it would be targeting Finn (Libra) and Thora (Aries) next.
ng
A Touch Charmed: Zodiac Cove Book 2
up
Finn went to Thora’s parents’ house where she’d been staying to tell her they needed to work
ng.
together to defeat the curse. Thora surprised Finn when he was on a ladder, tapping on her window.
He fell and broke his leg. Thora placed her hand over the wound to stop the bleeding and ended up
on
healing his leg with the magic she didn’t know she had. She freaked out and ran from Finn, but he
k,
caught up to her easily because he had speed power. It was the first time they’d touched in over seven
nd
years. Finn began kissing her when the side effects overwhelmed them both, but pulled back because
at
he knew it was only the magic making her act.
his
Thora didn’t want to accept that she had magic at first, but she grew up with the legend and knew it
es
was true. She was walking through the woods when she was attacked by the curse’s snake. Finn found
get
her and they touched, activating their magic. She healed and healed Finn as well. Finn asked her to
an
move in with him for both their protections since the curse was targeting them with physical attacks.
ey
She refused. Later that night, her father, the mayor, wanted her to fire Finn from the festival’s
he
anconstruction projects. She refused and he kicked her out. She turned up on Finn’s door and he was
tohappy for her to move in with him.
ng They began to test their magic, which fired arrows and wasps at them, but they were easily able to
heal. Deciding to try a different tactic, the curse hit them with a mental attack. It made them relive
lytheir break up. That’s when the truth came out, Thora’s father set Finn up to make it look like he ended
erthings with Thora and made it look to Thora like Finn never wanted to contact her again. He also set
heit up to look like Finn had moved on right away. With the truth out, they got back together. But when
sothey confronted Thora’s mom about what her father had done to break them up, it was revealed that
heFinn’s dad had an affair with Thora’s mom when Thora was young and that’s why Thora’s dad hated
alFinn so much. And they also discovered that Thora’s father wasn’t the mayor, but actually the
aldaughter of Dante Everett, who died before she was born.
d. Thora then knew that Kenna Everett, the owner of the Leo’s Den bar, was the Leo and talked to her,
eylearning more about her father and the cousin she never knew she had. The curse continued to attack
Finn and Thora with physical attacks, with a big battle taking place on the beach. The curse took on a
sehuman-like form named Nirah, a man who had smoke swirling in his eyes and a forked tongue. He
rnmorphed into a winged beast that attacked Audrey and nearly killed her, but Thora healed her and
heFinn ripped its wings off. Wes wanted Finn and Thora to move in with them so they’d be closer to
town.
They went back to Finn’s house to pack up their stuff and the curse lured Thora into the woods.
Nirah revealed himself to her and she discovered he was Ophiuchus’s son, a thirteenth descendant,
rk
and he was the one who actually cursed the island originally because he was furious with the other
w.
descendants. Nirah dragged Thora to the cave and tried to force her to give up her magic, but Finn
up
followed. They battled the beast with the help of golden threads that flowed out of the cave with that
he
and their magic, they nullified the poison the curse had been using to attack, making its deadly power
en
lesser. The cave exploded with the power unleashed from it and the place that had previously been
se
nothing but dead grass grew with life again.
Finn proposed to Thora on the beach and the curse washed a ton of dead fish onto the shore,
it
making it clear that it would be targeting Donovan and Violet next since Violet could breathe
nd
underwater and her magic was connected there.
to
ks. A Touch Enchanted: Zodiac Cove Book 3
’s Donovan showed up at Violet’s apartment after Finn made it clear to him in Book 2 that he and
Violet would be the next targets. She forgave him, but didn’t necessarily forget that he’d been
asavoiding her for weeks. When they touched, the side effects were overwhelming and they pounced on
each other. But before they could take it too far, Finn and Thora showed up at Violet’s apartment to
toshow them the dead fish that had washed up onshore.
ve Violet and Donovan agreed that they needed to practice their magic. The curse attacked them
edmultiple times, making it clear that it wanted them to stay out of the ocean. Which made them both
etthink the curse was guarding something in there. It became especially agitated when they got near a
encave in the cliff wall. As they continued to practice, they grew closer and Violet began to let go of her
hatinhibitions as she trust Donovan with more of herself. He confessed the reason why he left Zodiac
edCove and rejected her eight years previously, because his family needed him to handle business in
heEurope and he knew she couldn’t go with him because her family depended on her. He didn’t want to
hold her back waiting for him.
er, They eventually declared their love for each other and combined their powers, being connected
ckbody, mind, and spirit. The group that now had magic went into the forest to check out the cave,
n abattling the curse along the way. That’s when they discovered the grave of Ceti, Nirah’s other half,
Heand understood there were fourteen descendants. Violet had a dream about her and knew she had died
ndfrom a fall and Nirah lost his soulmate. She’d also dreamed about the two gates in the cave, one black
toiron and one golden that matched the threads that had helped Finn and Thora in Book 2. The black
gate was lowered, but the golden one remained open, letting water flow through an underground river.
ds. The group deduced that if the golden gate fell, it would cut off the water flowing through the island
nt,and they’d be trapped. When the group tried to leave the cave though, they found the exit blocked. The
eronly way out was for Violet and Donovan to attempt to take the river out, since they were the only
nnones who could breathe underwater, and hope it spit them out somewhere they could get help. The
hatriver took them to a cave, the same cave the curse had been trying to keep them away from. On one
erside of a golden and black grate there was a pool of gold-flecked water, on the other side a giant
enstone basin that appeared to be trapping the fear and pain of every resident on this island. Nirah was
there and told them it was the Well of Rebirth. It was a mix of black and gold, but every time the fear
e,and pain outweighed joy and laughter, more of the gold flickered out. They learned that when the well
heturned fully black, the island would sink. They also learned that Nirah had to willingly walk into the
gold-flecked pool on the other side of the well in order to die and take the curse with him.
They fought Nirah and tried to push him into the water, but he had to go willingly and the curse
would never let him. They eventually escaped the cave when Nirah turned to the beast and fought off
nd
the sharks and eels populating the water. In order to get back to the cave, they needed a pair with
en
onoffensive magic to help them battle their way through the forest again. Violet convinced Kenna to
towork with Galen to save everyone else. They freed everyone from the cave, but weren’t able to stop
the golden gate from lowering all the way, trapping everyone on the island. In the end, Violet had
manother dream and woke up telling Donovan that an invisible fire could stop the curse from blocking
thout the sun, suggesting Kenna and Galen would be the next targets.
a
A Touch Bewitched: Zodiac Cove Book 4
er
Kenna is walking down the empty streets of Zodiac Cove when she runs into Galen. Even though
ac
she knows she has to work with him, they bicker, but when they overwhelming feeling of being
in
trapped on the island hits her, she has a panic attack. Galen is calm and helpful and she ends up going
to
back to his cottage so they can practice. There they accidentally bump into each other, which sets off
the side effects. Galen gets them outside while kissing and grinding against her and pushes her wrists
ed
to the ground so her fire won’t burn his house down. Embarrassed by the whole incident, Kenna
e,
leaves.
lf,
A riot breaks out at the grocery store, as people in town turn on each other under Nirah’s influence.
ed
Galen saves Kenna and this surprises her. Galen knows he needs to work with Kenna, even though he
ck
really doesn’t like or trust her, thinking she encouraged her boyfriend to jump after he saw her naked
ck
in the library back when they were in high school. Kenna clears up the truth with him and they form a
er.
tentative truce. Galen has PTSD and trust issues from watching his abusive father die, and is reluctant
nd
to open up to Kenna about it, which makes practicing their magic difficult.
he
The curse attacks Kenna multiple times when she’s with Galen, whenever it appears they are
ly
getting closer to trusting each other and getting a grip on their powers. On one attack, Kenna
he
accidentally hits Galen with her fire while he’s invisible, but instead of burning him, his body
ne
absorbs the fire and he becomes a burning man. The curse backs away from him in fear. Kenna and
nt
Galen begin testing what Galen can do when he’s filled with Kenna’s fire, and it turns out he can suck
as
in the curse’s smoke and burn it to ash. They clear the forest of smoke.
ar
In town, a riot breaks out at the grocery store as the curse once again tries to possess people in
ell
town. But by this time, Kenna and Galen have fully opened up to each other and admitted their love,
he
combining their powers. They stop the curse from possessing people, but still haven’t figured out
what to do to save the sun that is coming out less and less every day. They make the trip up to the cave
se
with everyone and find that Ceti’s half of the gate is turning black. They try to stop it using everyone’s
off
powers pushed into theirs, but it’s too late. The sun goes out. They discover they have a month left at
th
most before the island sinks. Worried for everyone’s safety now that the curse has picked up steam,
toWes suggests moving everyone into the hotel. The book ends with the curse knocking out a lamp,
opsuggesting it will be blocking out all the light on the island next.
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suggesting it will be blocking out all the light on the island next.
 Content Warnings

Violence
Body horror
Near death by wasp stings
Nonconsensual filming during sex, told in flashbacks, not shown
 Content Warnings

Violence
Body horror
Near death by wasp stings
Nonconsensual filming during sex, told in flashbacks, not shown
 Dedication

For all the grumps who would crawl for their sunshines
 Dedication

For all the grumps who would crawl for their sunshines
 Contents

1. Brooke
2. Cole
3. Brooke
4. Cole
5. Brooke
6. Brooke
7. Cole
8. Brooke
9. Cole

10. Brooke
11. Brooke
12. Cole
13. Brooke
14. Cole
15. Brooke
16. Cole
17. Brooke
18. Cole
19. Brooke

20. Cole

Epilogue
Afterword

Character Key
Also by Sonia
About the Author
19. Brooke

20. Cole

Epilogue
Afterword

Character Key
Also by Sonia
About the Author
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
 Brooke

needed sunshine like I needed air. It had only been two days, but I already felt like I was
I suffocating. The walls of my hotel room pressed in on me, so different from my light and airy
cottage with tons of acreage, bright flowers spilling out of every available pot, and the heady scent of
earth and rainwater.
The Zodiac Hotel was fine for tourists. Fine for a night or two.
Not fine for someone who spent most of their time outdoors.
I tried making my room feel a little more like home by tacking colorful scarves and long silver
necklaces to the walls, but nothing could remove that feeling of temporary from the space. As if it
wasn’t meant to be occupied for longer than a week at most. And as someone who had spent the
majority of my life desperate to find and set down roots, it was the temporary that pressed in on me
more than anything else.
I needed to get outside. To breathe in the ocean air. To remember what we were fighting for.
Or what everyone else was fighting for, since I was paired with the most stubborn ass on the
island, who hadn’t done a damned thing to stop this curse.
We’d been stuck at this hotel for two days—a safety measure Wes had insisted on that I didn’t
entirely disagree with—and I’d seen Cole once. He made it a point to get down to the dining room
before everyone else and take his lunch and dinner to his room.
The one time we ran into each other in the hall, he took great pains to walk around me without
letting a stitch of our clothing touch, lest his dick get hard for an actual woman instead of spreadsheets
and bank statements.
At least he knew what his powers were. He never even gave me the chance to figure out mine.
Because he was a Capital A Asshole.
 I paced in my room, becoming more and more restless with each passing minute. Wes didn’t want
any of us to go outside without a partner. Well, too damn bad. I’d had about enough of doing
everything on the Lathams’ schedule.
With my decision made, I tiptoed down the hall, feeling like a teenager sneaking out of my mom’s
apartment, and not a grown adult who could go wherever she wanted, whenever she wanted.
The hinges on the French doors leading out to the beach creaked as I pushed them open. I cringed at
the sound as it ping-ponged against the silent walls. It was just after two in the morning, but time was
meaningless now. Without the sun, everything had become one long, endless night. I couldn’t stand it.
A thick, dark fog surrounded the hotel and covered most of the streets. Ever since we’d lost the sun,
people from all over the island had moved in closer to town. Families crowded together in rental
ascottages or moved into the hotel. A small group still loyal to the mayor camped out on his estate, but
ryhis numbers had dwindled significantly since the last incident at Constellations. There was only so
ofmuch ignoring of the truth people could do when the curse was infecting their loved ones and we
were the only ones capable of stopping it.
I used the term “we” loosely, since I hadn’t done much beyond mope about what I wasn’t doing. I
was a Cancer. Discovery, growth, helping people, and being a part of something larger than myself
erwere all in my nature. I couldn’t keep denying this part of myself.
it My magic was restless.
he I couldn’t feel it, not without touching Cole, but my intuition told me that something huge, something
meexplosive, was building within me, and if I didn’t let it out soon, it would begin to devour me from
the inside out.
I shuddered and rubbed my arms against the chilly, sunless air that drifted in from the quiet beach.
heClosing my eyes, I took a deep breath and let the damp, earthy scent of night fill my lungs. I missed my
home, my plants, and my bees. But when I stood out here and let the gentle lapping of the water
n’tagainst the shore soothe me, I felt a little less alone.
m A little more connected to the island where I planted my roots six years ago.
Ditching my sandals on the wide, white oak veranda, I let my toes sink into the sand, the cool
utgrains grounding me in a way the thin carpet in my room never could. A dark, swirling mist hovered
etsaround my ankles and I kicked it away. Not today, Satan.
I rarely got to be outside by myself anymore. If the curse wanted to take a swing at me, it would
ne.have to try again some other time. This moment belonged to me.
 nt The mist continued to circle as I walked toward the water, hovering near the ground and leaving the
ngsky wide open. Inky tendrils of the blackest smoke curled toward me, but backed away just shy of
touching. It was testing me. Seeing if I would give in to the fear it fed on. But the scent of salt and
m’sbrine, the light breeze that tickled my honey-colored curls, and the endless number of stars had a
stronger hold on me. Fear had no room to compete.
at I raised my hands over my head, laughing as I twirled in a circle, taking joy in the simple beauty of
asnature and all she provided.
The moon was full and bright, bathing the beach in a silvery glow. Not as nourishing to my soul as
un,the sun, but light was light. I’d take what I could get right now.
al A soft melody stirred in the air. “Help him.”
ut The voice was faint, like a breathless whisper. Moonlight rippled along the sand, sending the inky
sotendrils scattering. Whatever that voice was, the curse didn’t like it.
we Which meant I immediately trusted it.
“Help who?” I didn’t dare raise my voice, in case I scared away the melody that offered me a
. Isense of comfort I hadn’t felt since I’d last slept in my own bed.
elf “Help him.” The voice was fainter this time, as if it was fading, taking the hauntingly beautiful
melody with it. Panic set in as I scrambled to figure out what she wanted me to do.
“Please.” I spun around, looking for any signs of life, but I was completely alone. “I don’t know
ngwho you mean. Who am I supposed to help?”
m The moonlight rippled again, sending a thick wall of the curse’s smoke scattering. Near the water, a
lone figure stood with his head tipped back and his hands in his pockets. His broad shoulders
h.stretched the material of his dress shirt nearly to the breaking point.
my I only knew of one guy pompous enough to wear business attire to the beach.
er I rolled my eyes and prepared to turn around. I’d rather help one of the eels that used to populate
the waters than lift a finger for Cole Latham.
The gorgeous melody came to a screeching halt, like the sharp end of a violin bow being dragged
olacross out-of-tune strings. A bright burst of white light blinded me as the once-soft voice now
edscreamed in my ears. “Help him.”
“Okay, okay. Geez.” I rubbed my eyes and blinked away the stars that dotted my vision. “I doubt
ldhe’ll want anything from me, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
The voice, the melody, the bright light all disappeared. Even the lingering wisps from the curse’s
smoke went underground. Leaving just me and Cole on the beach. Alone.
he I gulped and slowly approached him, dragging the pads of my feet along the rough sand, which
ofmade my toes tingle. The moonlight provided enough light to give me a clear view of his profile.
ndStrong jaw, clean-shaven, piercing chocolate brown eyes, and a straight nose. The kind of face fit for
adark gray, broody cologne ads in glossy magazines.
The tallest of the Latham brothers, he came in at just over six four, with hard biceps straining
ofagainst the light blue material of his shirt. His rolled-up sleeves gave me an eyeful of forearm porn.
And he had a tight, round ass perfectly outlined in charcoal gray suit pants. Cole Latham was a
asgoddamned work of art.
It was a real shame about his personality.
This must’ve been how Hansel and Gretel felt when they found a house made of candy, only to
kydiscover a cannibalistic witch inside.
“You stalking me, sunshine?” The deep rumble of his voice made me jump. Like a large freight
train coming down the tracks, I should’ve felt the vibration under my feet before he opened his mouth.
a“I can hear you jangling from a hundred yards away. Not exactly stealth.”
I crossed my arms and huffed out a reluctant laugh when my sliver bracelets clinked together. The
ultiny charms on my anklet tinkled with every step forward I took. Maybe he had a point, even if he had
a gruff way of expressing it.
w “Sunshine?” I stepped up beside him and mimicked his pose with my legs spread, hands on my
hips, and a stern expression on my face that felt more like cosplay than anything else. “Are we on
anickname terms now, Latham?”
rs This was the closest I’d stood to him without him running away since the night he agreed to touch
me for the first time at the town hall meeting. Under the sea-scented air, I caught a light whiff of cedar
and leather. It reminded me of bare-knuckle fighting and drinking expensive whiskey in wood-paneled
terooms. Man-cave type stuff that I usually found boorish, but that suited Cole.
The top of his full lip curled as he stared down at me. “Don’t take it as a compliment. It’s what I
edcall all the women whose names I can’t bother to remember.”
w Ooh. Score one for this dickface.
While any other night this would’ve been the point where I’d called it quits, it was long past time
btfor me to push back. If he intended to drive me away so he could keep being his cranky loner self, he
had another thing coming. I was done operating on his terms.
’s I faced him and tipped my chin up, unintimidated by his stony gaze. “I don’t think that’s true at all.
Not only do I think you know my name, I think you say it. Often. Especially when you’re alone at
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