We’re so excited to have S.E. Babin back on the blog today! Get a little peek into the world of her new book, Power Shift, and what’s happening at the Little Shop of Florals.

What’s your favorite flower to work with?

Weird question for a Floromancer who loves ALL flowers, but okay. If I had to pick one out of all the fabulous flowers in the world, I’d choose the dahlia. They’re stunning, multi-petaled, and come in a dazzling array of colors and varieties.

How are Fee and Poe doing?

I’m pretty sure they like Caelan better than me now, but it is what it is.

Out of everyone in the shop, who’s come up with the wildest flower arrangement?

Hmm. I’d have to choose Tess. One Halloween, she wanted to do a Death Becomes Her arrangement, but she wanted to use real bones, and I had to put the kibosh on the idea.

Umm. Eww. Okay. How about the prettiest flower arrangement?

The answer is always Moira. Being a dryad, Ash has the better eye for flowers and greenery that go best together, but Moira has a unique eye for style. She’s put together some absolutely incredible arrangements before, though I do have to remind her of our budget. Repeatedly.

What was the strangest request you’ve ever received?

Easy. Someone wanted us to use their ex-husband’s ashes in a dead floral bouquet and deliver it to his mistress.

Did you take the job?

Sure did. Tess knocked that one right out of the park. Total chaos. Normally, we wouldn’t accept a job like that one, but the ex drained all their accounts, left the poor woman destitute, and then showed up at her doorstep with the new mistress to gloat.

Oh my. Is she doing well now?

Well, her ex-husband is dead, and he forgot to change the beneficiaries on his life insurance and will, so I’m sure she’s doing more than well. Last I heard, she was in Tahiti and had a boyfriend named Alejandro.

What’s next for Little Shop of Florals?

(Moira interjects) Try not to get blown up by livid mistresses?

Funny. Business as usual for now, though Tess’s bouquets have proven quite popular with a large niche of the Joy Springs population. I’m thinking of giving the banshee her own line of products.

(Moira interjects again) – It’s called Banshee Bouquets, and you gotta sign a waiver to take one out of the shop.

Learn more about Power Shift:

Snark. Sass. Sabotage.

Evie Quinn is tired. Of magical politics. Of cursed bouquets. Of hot Shifter Lords who kiss her like a promise and then send her potential love interest to another state.

All she wants is to run her flower shop in peace, maybe master the whole “accidentally-a-Chimera” thing, and avoid becoming a pawn in the games of gods and Lords.

But when has Evie ever gotten what she wanted?

When Finn arrives with a warning about a new threat, and her mother starts sniffing around for a lost possession she thinks Evie has stolen from her, the Floromancer feels the walls closing in on her.

Add in some unfortunate magical misfires, Caelan’s insistence on a quickie wedding she never agreed to, and the presence of a god too close to figuring out exactly what she is, and Evie has her hands full with no solutions in sight.

When secrets unravel and ancient enemies rise, Evie will have to choose: play nice to survive … or become the storm they never saw coming.

Meet S.E. Babin:

USA Today Bestselling author S.E. Babin is a mom, a wife, and a military veteran. She has a passion for writing books filled with heroines you’d like to sit down and drink too much wine with and heroes who love those kinds of girls. Whether it’s mystery, romantic comedy, or light urban fantasy, all of her books have a funny vein running through them. Life can be sad. Our books don’t have to be!

Babin has a Master of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction and Publishing from Emerson College and spends way too much time hanging out in libraries and bookstores.

You can find her on her website, Facebook, Instagram, and BookBub!