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Roses Are Royal: A Dark Romance (Darkness Blooms)

Ali VanCleave

He never feared losing control...until he met her.Rose has spent her entire life relying on one person: herself.Abandoned at birth and shuffled through the foster care system, Rose learned that independence isn’t a choice…it’s survival. So when she walks away from a prestigious interior design firm in New York City to launch her own business, failure isn’t an option.Her first client should be the break she’s been waiting for.The estate is breathtaking. Its owner is enigmatic, attractive, and impossible to read.As their connection deepens, Rose can’t shake the feeling that her client knows things he shouldn’t. He notices details no stranger could possibly know.While Rose has been fighting to build a future of her own, someone has been quietly watching her past.As the long-buried secrets begin to surface, the more dangerous it becomes to hide why she was brought into his life in the first place.Because she was never brought into his life by chance.She was never hired for the job.She was the job.Roses are Royal is book 1 in the Darkness Blooms series with morally grey characters, packed with humor, SLOW BURN/yearning spice, and delicious plot twists.Tropes: Stalker romance / Morally grey MMC / He falls first / Witty Banter / Hidden Identity / Love Triangle / Suspense

GenresLiterature & FictionRomanceRomantic SuspenseMafia RomanceDark Romance

324 pages

English edition · First published 2026 by Disco Books · ISBN 9798996314409

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