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Roots in the Dark
by James Michaels
- Category: Romance
- Language: English
- Reading time: about 14 min
About this book
In the quiet hours after midnight, two lonely strangers click into each other’s lives.
Michael Whitaker, fifty, an Army vet turned overworked chef, is married but invisible—haunted by guilt and a marriage that’s become a mausoleum of habits. Selena Reyes, forty-two, a divorced diner manager and mother of three, has buried her desires under years of shame and survival. When a cautious message on KinkConnect sparks something neither expected, they step into uncharted territory: slow, deliberate trust, whispered praise, and the safety to be fully seen.
What begins as late-night texts becomes a journey of surrender and care—bondage as holding, pain as release, aftercare as love. But as Selena’s career pulls her onto the road and shadows from the past begin to follow, the question looms: can their roots grow deep enough to hold through distance, fear, and the threat of someone who refuses to let go?
A tender, consent-focused later-in-life romance of healing, kink, and family. For readers who believe desire has no expiration date—and that the safest place to fall is into the right hands.
Roots in the Dark
Book One of the Entangled Roots Series
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