Tamsin runs Ashline, a memorial tattoo studio that mixes a speck of ash into ink. She can make room for anyone’s grief—except her own.
Theo arrives with a cedar box and a request for rosemary on his ribs. He faints, she feeds him toast, and coffee ‘about ink’ becomes the quiet where both can breathe.
When the building is sold, everything she’s built is at risk. He offers money; she refuses strings. He brings hands, tools, and respect instead—and the line between help and hunger starts to glow.
In a half-painted shop they set rules—gentle touch, condoms every time, safeword, pauses for tears, praise when it counts. Heat arrives like relief; trust makes hope dangerous.
A neighbor’s crusade threatens the door, a hearing tests their spine. Then she asks him to tattoo a hidden bloom using her mother’s ashes—and together they break open, not apart.
Ashline reopens with bread, rosemary, and soft light. They don’t promise forever. They promise to keep tending the ember.
💞 Contemporary Romance
🖋️ Tattooist × Widower
🔥 Slow Burn, High Heat, Praise
💐 Grief & Healing
⚠️ For readers 18+
Genre: Romance
Theo arrives with a cedar box and a request for rosemary on his ribs. He faints, she feeds him toast, and coffee ‘about ink’ becomes the quiet where both can breathe.
When the building is sold, everything she’s built is at risk. He offers money; she refuses strings. He brings hands, tools, and respect instead—and the line between help and hunger starts to glow.
In a half-painted shop they set rules—gentle touch, condoms every time, safeword, pauses for tears, praise when it counts. Heat arrives like relief; trust makes hope dangerous.
A neighbor’s crusade threatens the door, a hearing tests their spine. Then she asks him to tattoo a hidden bloom using her mother’s ashes—and together they break open, not apart.
Ashline reopens with bread, rosemary, and soft light. They don’t promise forever. They promise to keep tending the ember.
💞 Contemporary Romance
🖋️ Tattooist × Widower
🔥 Slow Burn, High Heat, Praise
💐 Grief & Healing
⚠️ For readers 18+
Genre: Romance
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