
Roots in Ink
Ariella Monti(Author)
Sweet Magnolia Media (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
979-8-9920601-2-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Like the magic of her Amoran ancestors, defiance runs through Emma's veins, and she takes on the treacherous risk of preserving the only surviving record of Belhaven's authentic history.
Emma isn't the only one with dangerous secrets.
Liam Doran, the museum's new caretaker, covertly embraces his untrained Amoran magic his family has denied for generations. Liam is rebuilding the property's natural habitat despite the risk drawing attention to his family's magical past.
Lust at first sight leads to a promise to keep it casual, but Emma and Liam are 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 connects it to events penned in Sara's diaries. Emma must decide if embracing her heritage and using magic to save Liam is worth risking her freedom and her life.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9920601-2-6 (9798992060126)
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I'm a former journalist who spent a long time saying I'd never write a book. I write cozy contemporary romance and high stakes fantasy romance. All my books are explicit open-door and absolutely not meant for readers who are under 18.My elder millennial protagonists are bisexual, neurodivergent, and live with chronic mental illness. They mostly have their shit together and I write their coming-of-middle-age stories.I write these types of characters because I'm a bisexual millennial with ADHD who never saw myself portrayed positively in books and on film. When I'm not writing, I teach yoga and fall behind on laundry. I live in Central North Carolina with my husband, child, a collection of aging pets, and a flock of chickens that won't stop tearing up the new plants in my flower garden.