Roll For Love

Before you dive into Roll For Love: Initiative and the rest of the trilogy, I want to offer a quick note about what you’ll find inside this story—and what might come with it.

This book is a love letter to found family, slow-burn chaos, emotional honesty, and that strange magic that happens when five broken people accidentally become a home.

It’s also a why choose romance—meaning no one has to pick just one partner, and no one gets left behind. But it’s not just about a woman loved by multiple men. Some of these men love each other, too. This isn’t a traditional reverse harem. It’s a web, not a line. It’s about connection in every direction, and what it means to share love without scarcity.

That said, this story doesn’t shy away from the messy parts. Our female main character lives with Type I diabetes, and her journey includes medically accurate details about insulin pumps, blood sugar crashes, and the harsh reality of insurance access in the U.S. You’ll also find themes of family rejection, housing insecurity, trauma healing, and learning to trust again—both yourself and others.

On the spice front: yes, it’s open-door. As the series progresses, so does the intimacy. Expect kink-affirming dynamics, praise, power play, and emotionally grounded group scenes—with clear consent and communication (and plenty of chaos).

If you're sensitive to any of the following, please take care of yourself as you read:

• Chronic Illness / Type I Diabetes (including medical emergencies, insulin pump use, CGM alarms, hypoglycemia, and DKA)
• Neurodivergence and mental health struggles
• Medical financial stress / healthcare insecurity
• Touch starvation, loneliness, and emotional trauma
• Toxic relationship fallout and past emotional and physical abuse
• Houselessness risk / sudden eviction
• Dysfunctional family dynamics and social rejection
• Sexual Coercion
• Homophobia / Queerphobia
• Religious Trauma
• Graphic, on-page, sexually explicit content including kink, voyeurism, group scenes, and consensual D/s dynamics
• References to and use of alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana
• Profanity

While Dungeons & Dragons is woven deeply into this story, a few creative liberties were taken along the way. Each book, in its pre-edited entirety, was alpha-read by several experienced players, and each game scene was reviewed by long-time players and Dungeon Masters in my own circle.

That being said… in this fictional house we use table rules, we don’t always stay in character, and the moments you’re reading are only small shards of much larger, much messier campaigns. I did my best to honor the spirit of the game—but for the sake of pacing, storytelling, and emotional rhythm, some things bend, some things blur, and some things are just theirs.

This is a story about choosing softness even when you’ve been hardened by life. It’s messy, a little nerdy, and deeply intimate—not just sexually, but emotionally.

Thank you for being here. I hope you fall for these characters the way I did—slowly, completely, and with your whole heart.

♥ —Maelana

This series proudly features representation of neurodivergent characters. With personal experience with ASD and ADHD, along with clinical knowledge, I aim to portray these characters authentically. It's important to remember that neurodivergence exists on a spectrum and looks different for everyone. Nothing written or implied is intended as a blanket statement or generalization of any member of the neurodivergent community.

This book includes a brief scene involving sexual intimidation and coercive behavior that was not present in Initiative and therefore not included in the author's note or content warnings for Book One. This behavior comes from someone outside the polycule and is neither condoned nor minimized within the story.

As always, your well-being matters more than finishing a chapter. Please read gently.

This book includes religious trauma, spiritual abuse, familial rejection, disownment, brief mention of conversion therapy, and religiously motivated emotional abuse that was not present in Initiative or Advantage and therefore not included in the author's note or content warnings for Books One or Two. This is contained to one chapter, and that chapter is 42.

As always, your well-being matters more than finishing a chapter. Please read gently.