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After the unexpected death of her father, Elvie's brother sends her to Eskell to work under her Aunt Maeve as a maid. When she makes a costly mistake, she finds herself in debt to the Master of the Manor. Lord Idris is far from the gentleman he pretends to be, and is looking for an excuse to act on a dangerous, growing obsession with his newest servant.
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10 Sep 2026
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“Stay,” she whispers into the darkness.
“We’re home now,” Haden whispers back. “I can’t.”
“Please. Just until I fall asleep.”
Penelope holds his hand against her face and pouts, watching his resolve crumble. He will not deny her, and that’s what she’s counting on. If she pushes hard enough, he will eventually give her everything.
or, the world ends, and Penelope and Haden find each other.
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- Part 1 of draw your swords
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08 Sep 2026
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“Godfather.” She huffed into her knee, eyes a little roll that settled on the checkerboard of the floor. “I didn't even know you existed until today.”
He rumbled with noise, something low in his throat like a groan. Exasperated. Head shaking in her peripheral like all the times Daddy had dismissed something she said. An oddly familiar gesture that knit in her brow, laced it together.
“Well...the sooner I get this place fixed, the sooner you can have it back to yourself, alright?”
The checkerboard started to melt in her vision, blurred with held back tears and the desire to sleep. Wake up and have all of this just be a bad dream. Nothing but a vapor she got to yawn away on her way downstairs. Coffee dripping on the stove, chickens clucking and running around happily.
Maybe it would go fast. Painless.
“Yeah...” Her voice was light, defeated. Gaze still steady on the floor. “Yeah I guess so.”
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08 Sep 2026
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Ellie slips the photo out of the back of her phone, it’s folded and creased between her mother’s seventeen-year-old face and the boy beside her. They’re both looking into the camera, both grinning, both a bit blurred by the glow of streetlights behind them. A snapshot in time, a freeze-frame moment from seventeen years ago… she’s been staring at it so long that her mother and the boy blur together until Ellie finds herself in the smear of it. (His smile, the dimples that sit in the edges of a sharp-toothed grin. Her mother’s hair, the curve of her cheek and nose.)
The train lurches as it slows and Ellie tucks the photo into the back of her phone again with unsteady fingers as she pushes to her feet. Some of the other people in the car do the same. It’s late enough that she’s aware she doesn’t quite blend in, too young looking in sneakers and leggings and one of her school sweaters, but she’s got pepper spray hanging from a keyring jangling around her wrist and she’s too nervous about meeting him to worry about anything else.
The paper crinkles in her hands and she looks down at it again, just as the subway doors open on a rush of warm, stale air. His name, in blue ink.
Nicolas Cordova
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- Part 1 of Bittersweet Thing
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19 Jun 2025
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The thing is, she remembers him.
This hulking shadow in the frame of the doorway. A big, dusty duffle bag next to big, dusty, heavy boots.
A thick, silver ring, clinking against the neck of a beer bottle.
That’s all she can think about when they say his name the first time in the warm office of the group home. Just that clink of his ring against a brown bottle in the hazy blue glow of the TV. A droning laugh-track and her parents' laughter mixing in. His eyes sometimes, sliding to her, sitting in the hallway and peeking in.
She can’t remember him ever laughing.
Your father’s brother, Miss Andrea said. Logan.
Did you know about him?
Clink clink.
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19 Jun 2025