Ashes and Ink
Vivienne has spent the last year running and the last three learning how to survive the kind of love that leaves scars. After escaping a toxic relationship that left more scars than anyone can see, she rebuilds her life in the North End quietly, carefully, and always looking over her shoulder. She tells herself she's safe now. That if she keeps her head down, if she stays small enough, the past won't find her.
She's wrong.
When her ex begins circling again, turning fear into a slow, suffocating game of control, Vivienne finds herself trapped between the ghost of the man who broke her and the dangerous pull of the man determined to protect her. Saint is not a hero. He is a tattoo artist with blood on his hands, a man feared in the streets and respected in the shadows of Blackwood. Cold, possessive, and impossible to escape, he sees straight through her walls and once he does, he has no intention of letting her go. What begins as protection becomes obsession. What starts as survival becomes surrender. As old monsters return and new ones rise, Vivienne must decide if freedom is really what she wants, or if some cages feel more like home.
In a city built on violence, love is never soft. It is possession. It is power. It is choosing the monster who would burn the world just to keep you safe.
Ashes and Ink is a dark romance about trauma, obsession, survival, and the dangerous beauty of being loved by the right monster.
