Secrets of Ink and Enchantment

She was never meant to wield magic. He was never meant to protect her. Secrets of Ink and Enchantment is a 1920s romantasy by @rosalind-hawkins full of forbidden power, dangerous attraction, and a powerful foe that wants to crush them both.

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The Street Where No One Walks

Scanning the establishment and not seeing any other customers, she pulled a duster from beneath the counter and headed to the windows to tidy up their displays. As she delicately brushed the dust off of the large tome on the history of the Roman Empire, she looked outside at the street. As usual, it was a ghost town, aside from the fauna. Ravens perched on street lamps and fences, and stray cats wandered in and out of alleys and alcoves. Whenever she left after sundown, she would often see at least one owl having taken up the ravens’ posts when they retired for the evening. While she did love seeing the animals, she always wondered why she seldom saw another person other than their customers.

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Clara thought the most illegal thing she would ever do was have a drink in a speakeasy with her best friend. She never thought her very existence would make her a criminal.

The book shop where she worked was full of secrets, hiding just beneath the surface. When the secrets became too intense to contain, Clara discovered a hidden world of magic. The most terrifying secret of all? She belonged to this world.

She was a dormant: an undetected, untrained magic-wielder, considered dangerous to everyone around her. The Arcane Dominion hunted her kind down and made them disappear. But unlike her fellow dormants, she was not alone.

Asher Thorne, the powerful Arcanist who owned the book shop, was willing to risk everything to train her in defiance of the forces that ruled over him. Keeping her hidden was enough to have him imprisoned. Loving her enough to train her to fight back against the magical overlords? That treason might cost him his life.

But some powers can’t be kept a secret. And some bonds are worth dying for.

This story follows Clara Wells, a young woman living in 1920s America who discovers magic. Unfortunately for her, the magic she finds within her is forbidden, undetected, and volatile.

This story is a historical romantasy full of slow burning emotional tension, high stakes, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Real history is blended with a hidden magical world operating at the edges of society.

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