Sixpenny Row

Unit four, Sixpenny Row. A tattoo studio with a piercing room at the back, on a parade of shops in south-east London that runs uphill to a box junction — a kebab shop three doors down, a launderette, a Turkish barber opposite, and a street sign that throws a red bar across the front window all night.

Sixpenny Row is a series of standalone British romances set in and around that shop. The work is the love language. Hours in the chair with a stranger's hand on you; a stencil argued over until it sits where it should have sat all along; aftercare explained twice because it matters; a price that does not move, because moving it would be an insult. These are people whose authority comes from precision — from what a trade teaches you to notice about a body, and about the person attached to it.

Unromantic about the trade. Romantic about the people in it. South-east London specifically: the trains out of London Bridge, the short lease, the letting agents who hold two more parades like it in Lewisham, and the particular intimacy of sitting still for somebody for six hours.

BMWW · interracial romance · tattoo artist romance · forced proximity · London setting · open-door explicit · guaranteed HEA.

Read them in any order. Start with Sit Still for Me.

Each book is a complete interconnected standalone with a different couple, a guaranteed HEA. Read in any order.