She went to Rome to find a dead woman. She found her alive instead.
Dr. Sophia Moretti has spent ten years trying to prove that an 18th-century Roman widow ran one of the most sophisticated underground print shops in papal history. Her university just told her that effort was a waste of everyone's time.
With seventy-two hours left on a forgotten research grant and nothing left to lose, Sophia books a flight to Rome.
She finds the building. She finds the press. She touches the wood.
She wakes up in 1748.
Giulia Proietti is real. Not a footnote. Not a ghost. Tall, fierce, copper-haired, and deeply unimpressed by this confused American woman who fainted in her print shop.
Sophia knows things about Giulia that Giulia doesn't know about herself. She knows the names of every woman who works in that shop. She knows the legal battles Giulia fought. She knows the night that will destroy everything.
She knows the fire is coming.
What she doesn't know is how to stop falling in love with a woman who cannot exist in her century.
Set against the candlelit streets of Trastevere and the golden light of Renaissance Florence, The Ink Between Us is a slow-burn sapphic romance about obsession, belonging, and two women who print their names into history.
Perfect for readers of:
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
- Outlander -- but make it sapphic, academic, and ink-stained
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue with a happy ending
- Dark academia romance set in 18th-century Italy
This book contains:
- Slow-burn sapphic romance
- Found family in a printing workshop
- A love story that spans two centuries
- Historically grounded 18th-century Rome and Florence
- A fire, a villain, and a heist pulled off with lead type
Content note: Mild period-accurate homophobia (as context, not graphic), one instance of attempted arson, and an extraordinary amount of very romantic typesetting.
