Roots And Statics
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Last published Fri, Jul 31, 2026
Dr. Yolande Bennett left Jamaica with a scholarship and a promise to herself: build something permanent, then bring it home. Ten years and three degrees later, she's a botanist with a gift most people never notice: she reads rooms, reads people, and switches effortlessly between the woman the world expects and the woman she actually is.
Then Helix Biotech comes calling, and so does its CEO.
Damien Cross is brilliant, guarded, and impossible to fully read, which, for a woman who reads everyone, is its own kind of magnetic. But Damien is hiding something that isn't a secret in the ordinary sense. Something alive. Something that has shared his body for eighteen months, watching Yolie through his eyes and wanting things Damien isn't sure he's allowed to want back.
As Yolie gets closer to the truth, she has to decide how much of herself she's willing to risk on a man who can't yet tell her what he is, and Damien has to decide how long he can keep the thing inside him contained before it decides to stop waiting for his permission.
A slow-burn, interracial sci-fi romance about identity, trust, and what it costs to let someone see all of you human, hidden, or otherwise.
🌱 slow burn • alien-in-human-host • interracial romance • found family • secrets & consequences
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