Stories of women history tried to forget.

BOOKS BY SYBIL BLACKWOOD

Historical fiction rooted in research, rebellion, desire, and the lives left outside the official record.

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Book cover titled "The Woman Who Refused Rome" by Sybil Blackwood. Features a medieval woman with braided hair in a dark cloak, holding a sword, looking over a castle with flags on a mountain at sunset.

Stories of women who refuse to stay within the lines history drew for them, with sapphic romance, rebellion, and plenty of bloodshed.

THE BOOK OF ASH · BOOK ONE

The Woman Who Refused Rome

COMING SOON

Rome is coming. As violence closes in and old loyalties begin to fracture, Brenna is forced to choose what she is willing to sacrifice—for her people, for herself, and for the woman she never expected to love.

As Rome advances into Britain, tribal alliances begin to crack under the pressure of fear, ambition, and survival. Brenna, daughter of a chief, is pulled into a struggle that threatens not only her people’s future, but the life she thought she understood.

Then she meets Eira.

What begins as an unexpected connection becomes increasingly dangerous as blood is spilled, loyalties harden, and the choices around them grow more brutal. Brenna must decide whether duty, survival, and desire can exist together—or whether Rome will take the choice from her first.

HISTORICAL FICTION · SAPPHIC ROMANCE · GRAPHIC VIOLENCE · EXPLICIT CONTENT