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Author of Speculative Fiction

Winifred Burton

E-book cover for The Emancipation of Anarchy Aldridge by Winifred Burton with the title and author name in cream colored text over a sepia toned image of a Black woman with short natural hair down to her bare shoulder, with a rip across the part of her fac

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The Emancipation of Anarchy Aldridge:
Conquering Hand Book 1

When the only person in the world who can make her smile is sold away, Amity fled Roseacres, the sprawling home the Aldridges built on the backs of the enslaved. She is determined to outrun the catchers, and follow the trail to his side, even across the battlefields of the Civil War.Being hunted unleashes a hidden inner power that could protect Amity, or it could make her an irresistible target, no matter what happens to the union. She hides in plain sight, disguised as a man, and blends into a regiment of United States Colored Troops on the march to Vicksburg, Mississippi. When the unit makes camp in a seemingly deserted town, Amity crosses paths with a preacher and his devoted flock that believe she is the evil foretold in his visions.Amity never meant to be a soldier or a killer, but her heightened instincts are telling her to use the gifts she inherited from her ancestors, and the only path to her love is bathed in blood.

E-book cover for Root Access, an erotic novel by Winifred Burton. The book title and author name are in pink and white text respectively, over the image of a Black man's muscular back against a watery green background, with golden sparkles in the top left

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Root Access: SoularFunk Book 1
(Black Solarpunk Erotica)

Billie Tawnzen loves chaos, especially when she can fix it. As the firstborn daughter, she has two full-time jobs: healing the industrial scars of the city as head of the Witch Council, and nurturing her family after the death of her father. She could handle it, until the Tree Guild decided to block her latest restoration by any means necessary. The guild’s representative is exactly the kind of man Billie would love to take over her knee, but she needs to stay focused, and stick to flexing strictly at the negotiation table.Osias Oualalde is the son of a Master Tree Artisan who was the son of a Master Tree Artisan. In fact, an Oualalde has held a seat on the Guild since its founding at the Regeneration. The mayor’s witch haunts his fantasies, but he understands Detroit’s root system better than anyone above ground, and the guild is counting on him.Osias longs to bend the knee to Billie’s magnetism, but the city’s generative future depends on his ability to either resist her at all costs, or convince the most powerful and desirable woman he’s ever met that she’s wrong.

E-book cover for Root Access, an erotic novel by Winifred Burton. The book title and author name are in pink and white text respectively, over the image of a Black man's muscular back against a watery green background, with golden sparkles in the top left

About
Winifred

Winifred Burton (she/her/hers) is a Midwestern granddaughter of the Great Migration by way of Mississippi.She splits her time between community midwifery and creating magical Black girls who are burning shit down.A fellow of speculative writing workshops Voodoonauts (2022) and Hurston Wright Foundation (2023), as well as the author of three books, Winifred is also featured in the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award nominated anthology, The Crawling Moon, Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread.

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