To Remember Is To Love • To Forget Is To Betray Love • THE TEA WITCH'S GARDEN • Available Now •
To Remember Is To Love • To Forget Is To Betray Love • THE TEA WITCH'S GARDEN • Available Now •
What if your grief had an expiration date?
Like, legally?
In this kingdom, the Office of Rakhmah mandates a strict timeline: You have 7 days to mourn.
After that, you move on or face the consequences. No crying at graves after your allotted time. No keeping their belongings. No speaking their name in public spaces.
Just... done. Finished. Next.
The Tea Witch’s Garden is set in a world where memory is regulated by law—and a dying mother named Divine brews forbidden teas that let people feel anyway.
It's fantasy. But is it really?
The Law vs. The Magic
Explore the Garden
Select a cover below to discover what blooms within.
Prequel:
The Tea Witch’s Garden
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Book I:
Ironbloom
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Book II:
Stoneflower
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Book III:
Moonpetal
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Book IV:
Dawnflower
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About Monique
Monique R. Roumo writes lyrical romantic fantasy that gives women permission—permission to grieve, to remember, to be fully, messily, gloriously themselves.
Her work transforms the quiet, unspoken experiences of women into stories where magic mirrors emotion, where gardens hold truths too dangerous to speak aloud, and where the most revolutionary act is choosing to feel deeply in a world that demands numbness. She creates characters that reflect the essence of the people she loves, making each story a tribute to the powerful women who have shaped her world.
The Bloodroot Sisterhood was born from the beautiful and complex legacy her mother, Marion Divine Roumo, left in her and her sisters after her sudden passing in 2022. Through grief, Monique discovered that the stories we inherit—the permissions granted and withheld, the love given imperfectly, the truths spoken too late or just in time—are themselves a form of magic worth preserving.
Guided by her faith and the ancestral message that we come from greatness—a truth she embraced on a life-changing journey to Nigeria—her work celebrates identity, resilience, and the revolutionary power of memory as resistance.
What Makes Her Work Different
The specificity of her truth makes it universal. Monique writes from lived experience—Black women, mothers and daughters, sisters navigating loss—with such emotional precision that readers of all backgrounds recognize themselves in her gardens. Her magic systems aren't about power; they're about permission. Her romances aren't about rescue; they're about being seen. Her fantasies don't offer escape; they offer mirrors that reflect the messy, complicated beauty of being fully human.
She writes for the women who've been told their grief is too much, their anger too loud, their needs too selfish. She writes to say: You are allowed.
Monique lives in Maryland, where she tends the garden of her soul and believes that the most dangerous stories are the ones that give women permission to take up space.
