Hello, kindred souls—I'm Áille Róis.

The name may be unfamiliar, but if you've followed my YouTube channel, you might know me as Bella Rose.  That name was born from my favorite quote—one I wrote myself:

"Love is like a rose.  Though the thorns hurt, the beauty keeps you holding on."
—Áille Róis

It's a truth rooted in my favorite fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast—not the Disney version, but the raw, aching original.  That story led me to the darker origins of fairy tales, and I never looked back.

To avoid being confused with another romance author, I embraced the Irish translation, Áille Róis—"beautiful rose."  A name that reflects not only my heritage, but the kind of stories I tell: romantic, psychological, hauntingly human.

I'm a wife of nineteen years, a mother of two spirited boys, and a full-time creator who writes for the broken, the complex, and the beautiful.  My oldest son is autistic, and raising him as changed how I see the world, and how I write.  Strength, after all, comes in many forms.

I live with severe chronic depression, anxiety disorder, and PTSD.  I take medication daily and attend therapy regularly.  If I didn't, I wouldn't be here—reaching out with my stories.  Mental health should never carry shame.  We all need help sometimes.  I write dark stories with light at the end because I fought hard for my own happy ending.  Even now, it's not perfect—but it's mine.

I didn't always read romance.  I found my literary voice in the 90s, drawn to the psychological depth of writers like Poe, Tolkien, and Lewis—back when schools still dared to teach them.  Over time, my interests grew to include thrillers and forensic fictions, especially the works of Dan Brown and Kathy Reichs.  But everything changed when I discovered visual novels in the 2010s.  That's when I fell, completley and irreversibly, into the emotional, obsessive intensity of romance.

Music is my lifeline, followed closely by writing.  And always at my side is my emotional support fur baby, Eve.  I may have chosen her, but she's a daddy's girl through and through.  We just rent the house—she rules it.

I write what I feel, what I fear, what I crave.

And in every story, I leave behind a piece of myself—thorns and all.

How to Pronounce My Name

Áille Róis is pronounced AWL-yuh ROHSH.

It means beautiful rose in Irish.  I chose it after discovering that the name I’d used for years—Bella Rose—was already taken by another romance author.

I didn’t want to start over.  I wanted to evolve.  So I kept the meaning, but gave it a tone that matched my voice: gothic, emotional, and unapologetically sharp around the edges.

Áille Róis is the name I write under now—but its roots go all the way back to the first story I ever shared.

(And yes, I had to look up how to say it too.)