Of Ink and Alchemy: A Dark Romance (Deluxe Limited Edition) (The Black Rabbit, 1)

Name: Of Ink and Alchemy: A Dark Romance (Deluxe Limited Edition) (The Black Rabbit, 1)
Author: Sloane St. James

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Why we recommend it

A dark romance steeped in ink, alchemy, and secrets neither side is ready to reveal. Atmospheric, slow-burn, and quietly unsettling.

At a glance

Of Ink and Alchemy is book 1 in Sloane St. James’s The Black Rabbit series. With 3/5 for spice and 3/5 for darkness it sits on the lighter side for dark romantasy (of the 648 dark romantasy books on Readark, almost none rate lower for darkness and 8% lower for spice). Its tropes include slow burn, forbidden romance and morally grey MC. It runs to 344 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Tropes

Forbidden Romance Morally Grey MC Slow Burn

Book details

Pages: 344
Published: February 2026

Of Ink and Alchemy spice level

Of Ink and Alchemy is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate