I should’ve known the trouble would come dressed in a black suit and a calm voice—because men like Rowan Blackwood don’t walk into a flower shop… they take control of it.
My name is Iris Vale, and I run Vale Florals, the only thing my mother left me that still feels alive. Roses, weddings, funeral arrangements—pretty lies people buy when their hearts are breaking. I thought my biggest problem was rent and bad reviews. Then Rowan showed up with threats wrapped in paperwork, eyes like winter, and a warning I can’t unhear:
If they come for the roses, don’t trust the man in black.
But the thing about danger is it doesn’t always feel like fear. Sometimes it feels like safety. Sometimes it feels like him—too close, too steady, too tempting.
There’s a ledger hidden in my shop, a syndicate that wants it back, and a target painted on my life. Rowan says he can protect me. He also won’t tell me what he’s really guilty of. And the more he pulls me into his world of secrets, lies, and violence… the more my body betrays me with wanting.
Because when you’re trapped with a morally gray fixer who looks at you like you’re his last mercy, the line between protection and possession gets blurry fast.
Roses & Ruin is a spicy dark romantic suspense featuring enemies to lovers, forced proximity, one bed, touch-her-and-die protection, dangerous chemistry, high stakes, open-door steam, and a heroine who refuses to be anyone’s weakness—until she chooses to be.
If you like your romance intense, fast-paced, and addictive with mafia/syndicate vibes, obsessed protector hero, and plot twists that hit hard, step into my shop… and try not to bleed on the roses.
Genre: Romance
My name is Iris Vale, and I run Vale Florals, the only thing my mother left me that still feels alive. Roses, weddings, funeral arrangements—pretty lies people buy when their hearts are breaking. I thought my biggest problem was rent and bad reviews. Then Rowan showed up with threats wrapped in paperwork, eyes like winter, and a warning I can’t unhear:
If they come for the roses, don’t trust the man in black.
But the thing about danger is it doesn’t always feel like fear. Sometimes it feels like safety. Sometimes it feels like him—too close, too steady, too tempting.
There’s a ledger hidden in my shop, a syndicate that wants it back, and a target painted on my life. Rowan says he can protect me. He also won’t tell me what he’s really guilty of. And the more he pulls me into his world of secrets, lies, and violence… the more my body betrays me with wanting.
Because when you’re trapped with a morally gray fixer who looks at you like you’re his last mercy, the line between protection and possession gets blurry fast.
Roses & Ruin is a spicy dark romantic suspense featuring enemies to lovers, forced proximity, one bed, touch-her-and-die protection, dangerous chemistry, high stakes, open-door steam, and a heroine who refuses to be anyone’s weakness—until she chooses to be.
If you like your romance intense, fast-paced, and addictive with mafia/syndicate vibes, obsessed protector hero, and plot twists that hit hard, step into my shop… and try not to bleed on the roses.
Genre: Romance
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