Midnight Ink

By Kerry Chaput

Newport, 1899. Ellie Perkins has spent her life being groomed for perfection-her complexion lightened with poisons, her wild hair tamed, her sharp tongue silenced, and her gothic art hidden beneath the floorboards. Now her family's future depends on her marriage to the Duke of Ashford, a title-rich Englishman who promises escape from Newport society and a remote manor where she can disappear.

Then Ellie meets Henry Martin, the duke's rebellious American cousin. Henry introduces her to tattooing, a forbidden art form capable of transforming pain, memory, and desire into something visible-and beautiful. As Ellie's attraction to him deepens, buried family secrets surface, and the strange images she sees coming to life from tattoos become harder to dismiss.

Caught between expectation and freedom, Ellie must decide whether security is worth surrendering herself. Midnight Ink is a lush, provocative historical novel about art, bodily autonomy, inherited shame, forbidden love, and one woman's determination to write her own future in permanent ink.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1685138756
• ISBN13: 9781685138752
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Black Rose Writing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"