Blood & Roses by Velvet at Inkitt

Story Notes

CONTENT WARNING AND AUTHOR'S NOTE

Blood & Roses is a work of dark romantasy intended for mature audiences only.

It contains explicit themes and emotionally intense content that may be disturbing or triggering to some readers. While fictional, the story engages deeply with elements of human darkness, trauma, and moral complexity.

The narrative includes: graphic violence, murder, and ritual sacrifice; blood, gore, and depictions of death; sexual content and references to intimacy; psychological trauma and emotional manipulation; and morally grey characters, vengeance, and forbidden love.

This story does not shy away from the brutal or the beautiful, the haunting or the heartfelt. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

Recommended for readers 18 years and older. By continuing, you acknowledge that you are 18+ and consent to engaging with this material.

All characters, names, events, and places are entirely fictional and a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Author’s Note: Chapters in this story were originally written in a longer format. For ease of reading on Inkitt, they have been divided into smaller parts while preserving the original flow and structure of the narrative.

Thank you for reading!

Summary

In Blackbriar, justice serves the powerful. And love? Love leaves a body count. Corvina Everwood is here to rip both masks off, one corpse at a time. Haunted by a legacy of forbidden magic, Corvina is the last heir of a cursed bloodline born of necromancy and a love that defied death. By day, she runs Thorn and Bloom, an apothecary of potions, charms, and whispered spells. By night, she delivers retribution to those who escaped justice. Cursed by the Veil, the force guarding the boundary between life and death, she must kill thirteen guilty souls or be consumed from within. Sentinel Warren Crowe has always trusted the law, until the Redheart murders lead him to her door. He does not expect a witch with a silver tongue and a pull he cannot ignore. Corvina unsettles him, and despite himself, he keeps returning. But Warren is not as unshakable as he seems. Some truths refuse to stay buried. As corruption festers and time runs out, Corvina must break the curse before the Veil claims her entirely. In a city where the gods no longer answer, mercy is paid in blood.

Genre: Fantasy

Author: Velvet

Status: Ongoing

Chapters: 2

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

THE GRIMOIRE OF HOUSE LARSEN

INSCRIBED BY MORANA LARSEN

High Witch of Blood and Death

To you who bears this burden next-

I write this with blackened hands and a splintered soul.

I loved. Deeply. Desperately. Enough to tear the Veil itself.

And for that love, I spilled innocent blood. I killed a pure flame to resurrect a dying spark.

The Veil did not forgive me. It fractured. It bled. It screamed.

And so it cursed me not with death, but with legacy.

A curse not for me, but for you-my unborn daughter, and all your eldest descendants to come.

Blood for blood. Soul for soul.

Thirteen times, until balance is restored.

May the ink of this book remain black, and your heart never hollow.

-Virgo 16th, 5 A.B.