The Blood Bloom's Secret - Paperback

Some discoveries were never meant to stay buried. Some desires were never meant to stay hidden.

Botanist Iris Vaughn has built her life around things she can understand. Plants follow rules. Experiments produce answers. And when something impossible appears in her greenhouse, she intends to study it the same way she would any other anomaly.

The Blood Bloom has other ideas.

Beautiful, unnatural, and unlike anything Iris has ever encountered, the mysterious flower seems to respond to the people around it. As its roots spread through the greenhouse and its influence becomes harder to explain, Iris begins to question whether she is studying the Bloom or the Bloom is quietly revealing something about her.

Jax has always seen more of Iris than she is comfortable admitting. A photographer with an instinct for capturing what people normally hide, he challenges the careful boundaries she has built around herself. He encourages her to acknowledge desires she has spent years refusing to name. What begins as curiosity soon becomes an exploration of trust, surrender, voyeurism, and the complicated thrill of discovering that wanting more does not necessarily mean loving less.

As Iris and Jax push deeper into fantasies neither expected to make real, new possibilities emerge, including Lena, a woman Iris discovers she wants for reasons that have nothing to do with anonymity or experimentation. Through every boundary crossed and every desire admitted, Iris must decide what belongs to the strange influence growing beneath her greenhouse and what has been inside her all along.

But while Iris is learning to stop hiding from herself, the Blood Bloom is changing.

Its roots are spreading. Other plants are responding. And whatever began with a single impossible flower may be becoming something much larger.

Dark, provocative, and unapologetically explicit, The Blood Bloom's Secret is a paranormal erotic romance about desire, consent, trust, sexual discovery, and the freedom that comes from finally admitting what you want. This book is intended for adult readers only.