Roots in Ink

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Belhaven Island is full of buried secrets. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As an Amoran scribe Sara Cortese observed a world where magic was woven into the fabric of the community. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But four centuries later an authoritarian government is in power magic is outlawed and the country's history has been rewritten. And in the dark corners of Belhaven's museum basement Emma DiMarco discovers a collection of Sara's diaries.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Like the magic of her Amoran ancestors defiance runs through Emma's veins and she takes on the treacherous risk of preserving the only surviving record of Belhaven's authentic history.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Emma isn't the only one with dangerous secrets. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Liam Doran the museum's new caretaker covertly embraces his untrained Amoran magic his family has denied for generations. Liam is rebuilding the property's natural habitat despite the risk drawing attention to his family's magical past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lust at first sight leads to a promise to keep it casual but Emma and Liam are unable to fight the inexorable pull of their magic destined to bind them together. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When a mysterious illness strips Liam of his humanity and threatens his life Emma connects it to events penned in Sara's diaries. Emma must decide if embracing her heritage and using magic to save Liam is worth risking her freedom and her life.</span></p>