Author Jess Layne

Applicants: check your emails!! And, if you didn’t already have a read set for your weekend: happy Friday 🤭

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Reminder that my website preorder packages include free with the respective book: signed, a page overlay, an art print, a bookmark, and a sticker!
Indie shops will have bookplates, and limited merch packs which include an art print, a bookmark, and a sticker!

In Beds of Flowers, and Through the Twisted Vines spoilers below🖤
“I know who I am now. I am a bringer of death, it’s true. I am a male of torment; survived, and delivered.
I am also a loyal friend. I am a father to a strong, wonderful male. I am the mate to Ciaragen f*cking Vey.
I am Dion Evestre. And I am not the only one who will remember my name.” -Out, Root and Stem ch30

21 years of separation is nothing when the love is as fierce as the people who hold it for each other. (Yes, the Epic song is intentional. Odysseus and Penelope who?) (jkjk please)

Art by the incredible ⭐️ S H I N ⭐️ ❤️‍🔥

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Dark romantasy book
Why choose book
Spicy book recommendations
Fated mates book romance
Forced proximity romantasy books
Slow burn romance books
Enemies to lovers book recommendations
Romantasy book recommendations
Romantasy book con 2026
Fantasy romance

“I would much rather the wolves devour me alone than my friends with me.”
-Out, Root and Stem: Part One, chapter one
Preorders are open now 🖤

Art by me Jess - artist . Used procreate, technical pen for lines, round brush for flat color and gloaming brush/smudge for rendering. Tried a sketchy style again, pretty happy with the results 🫶

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Dark romantasy
Why choose book
Spicy book recommendations
Fated mates book romance
Forced proximity romantasy books
Slow burn romance books
Enemies to lovers book recommendations
Romantasy book recommendations
Romantasy book con 2026
Fantasy romance

Yes, this is an actual line in ORAS2, spoken by our favorite cinnamon roll who never claimed to be a saint. Yes, this is the playlist song for that chapter. Yes, if you order Out, Root and Stem: Part 2 from my website, you get this art as a vellum page overlay (prints may be made available separately if demand is high enough 🖤). Part 1 will have a different overlay—still to be revealed 👀🤭

Preorders open THIS THURSDAY, June 11th!!!! Books 1 and 2, In Beds of Flowers and Through the Twisted Vines are out now on KU, in paperback and hardcover ❤️‍🔥 Warning, for those of you just finding the series: the slow burn is agonizing

Art by me 🖤 it took me over 20 hours so pls appreciate 😅😭

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Fated mates book recommendations
Enemies to lovers book recommendations
Spicy book recommendations
Fated mates book romance
Forced proximity romantasy books
Slow burn romance books
Romantasy book recommendations
Romantasy book con 2026
Fantasy romance