A Kiss Woven In Ruin

• Romantasy
• Paranormal romance
• Urban fantasy

• Star-crossed lovers
• Forced proximity
• Opposites attract
• Right person, Wrong time
• Slow burn (open-door spice)

• Who did this to you
• He wears leather gloves
• Tends to her wounds
• Touch-starved FMC
• Monster who’s only soft for her
• ‘I shouldn’t want you, but I do’ vibes
• Horns…

A Kiss Woven In Ruin explores themes of survival and abuse, and their impact on a person’s life. The abuse is not portrayed on the page, but its effects are detailed through the characters’ stories. Some of this is part of my own story, and others are a result of careful research, I hope to have depicted and represented to the best of my ability.

Grief and loss

Parental abandonment and neglect

Poverty and financial instability

Survival trauma

Gambling and debt

Substance use

Abduction

Panic & Anxiety depictions

Memory loss

Violence

Emotional and psychological abuse (referenced only)

Controlling relationship (referenced in the past only)

Trickery and manipulation

Graphic action

Explicit sex scenes

Forced marriage (not main romance)

Physical injury and scars

Chronic pain

Supernatural coercion