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Roots in Ink

Name: Roots in Ink
SKU: 979-8-9920601-3-3
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$5.99

Heat Level

HIGH HEAT: multiple open-door sex scenes with descriptive physical details, some body fluids, and some adult words for body parts. Physical intimacy is part of the plot.

Trigger Warning(s)

Explicit descriptions of sexual intimacy; Struggles with mental illness and severe depression; Explicit swearing; Death; Violent government regimes (violence is off page); Misogyny; Blood; Ritualistic self-harm; Suicidal ideation (implied); Emotional abuse between partners; Physical fighting; Alcohol consumption; Cigarette smoking; Parental abandonment (off page); Animals in peril (but unharmed); Dog attack (Non-fatal human injury)

Belhaven Island is full of buried secrets.

As an Amoran scribe, Sara Cortese observed a world where magic was woven into the fabric of the community.

But four centuries later, an authoritarian government is in power, magic is outlawed, and the country’s history has been rewritten. And in the dark corners of Belhaven’s museum basement, Emma DiMarco discovers a collection of Sara’s diaries.

While she takes on the treacherous risk of preserving the only surviving record of Belhaven’s authentic history, Emma attempts a casual fling with her hot new coworker Liam Doran. But remaining friends-with-benefits is tough because they’re unable to fight the inexorable pull of their magic destined to bind them together.

When a mysterious illness strips Liam of his humanity and threatens his life, Emma must decide if embracing her heritage and using forbidden magic to save him is worth her own.

The Highlights

Fantasy romance in a familiar world
Gothic romance vibes with more banter
Middle-aged bisexuals plus a sapphic romance in queer-normative worlds
Magically bonded plant nerds
Illegal magic, secret spell books, hidden diaries
Everyone is depressed, anxious, and/or ADHD
Poors at an art gala
Platonic soulmates
Instalust
Hooking up at work
Explicit descriptions of tattooed forearms
A dog, a black cat, and a murder of crows

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SKU: 979-8-9920601-3-3 Categories: Fantasy, Bisexual, Paranormal Tags: bisexual romance, contemporary fantasy, midlife romance, soulmates

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Ariella is a former journalist, but uses “former” loosely. Her curiosity for all things is insatiable and research is her favorite part of any project.

She writes cozy contemporary and high stakes paranormal romances. Her work is steamy and open door absolutely not intended for readers who are under 18.

Her millennial protagonists are bisexual, neurodivergent, and live with chronic mental illness. They mostly have their shit together and Ariella chronicles their coming-of-middle-age stories.

She writes these types of characters because she’s a bisexual millennial with adult-diagnosed ADHD who never saw herself portrayed positively in books or film.

When she’s not writing, she teaches yoga and falls behind on laundry. She lives in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, child, a collection of aging pets, and a flock of chickens that won’t stop tearing up the new plants in her flower garden.