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    After a fire leaves her with nothing but ashes and a forgotten betrothal, Rey is sent from India to the cold, echoing halls of Wrenwick Manor. The engagement is nearly a year overdue, and her intended—Lord Solo—is a man carved by war, more specter than savior. The marriage should have been voided, but he never withdrew the offer.

    Yorkshire is bleak. The manor, bleaker still. And yet beneath its withering silence, something begins to stir. A memory. A hunger. A seed of something half-dead pushing through frostbitten soil.

    He is running from a past soaked in blood. She is clinging to a version of this place that may never have existed.

    Somewhere between locked doors and shadowed halls, they begin to bloom—darkly, desperately, beautifully.

    A gothic romance about what survives the burn. About the ache to be known, and the terror of being seen. About roots that tangle… and rot.

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    A hideously mauled corpse is found sprawled across the paving stones of Brick Lane in the East End of London. Inspector Harry Potter--widely believed to be the lead candidate for next Deputy Head Auror--is called in to investigate a possible magical crime. To make matters worse, his occasional lover and former school-nemesis, Viscount Draco Malfoy, now billing himself as a consulting criminologist, shows up at the crime scene to aid in the investigation of the suspicious death.

    Neither man will go away from the case unchanged, but will their combined forces be enough to fight the tide of danger that is sweeping London in the summer of 1910? And if they plumb the depths of the case, what bones of the past will they uncover?

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    “When we met," Yaz starts. "You were so obscure, unknowable. You took me all around the world, showing me what life could be like. I thought it’d be like this forever. I thought it would always be like this: you and me, toppling worlds in London, in New York. Like nothing could ever break us.”

    “I didn’t know Scotland Yard would find us,” Maeve snaps, her eyes shining with an apology. “Or Borusa.”

    “Neither did I,” Yaz replies. “I think—I think we’ve tried to tell our story to ourselves, over and over again, until it’s taught with unmeaning. I think we want it to mean something else than what it is. I think we’re stuck in the lies that we’ve been living.”

    “I haven’t lied to you.”

    “No,” Yaz’s eyes shine. “You just haven’t told me the truth.”

    Following her cancer diagnosis, Maeve Smith is released from Holloway Women's Prison on compassionate discharge and is ordered to spend the rest of her days with her caretaker and best friend, Yasmin Khan. Business as usual—or it would be if Maeve wasn't hiding something and if the cracks that nearly destroyed their friendship eight years ago didn't come roaring back.

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    When Vernon Dursley accepted a job at U.S. Steel and moved his whole family to Pennsylvania, including his nephew, he had no idea what sort of ramifications that that decision would have on the future of an entire world. The year is now 1910 and an 18 year old Harry Potter is making his way back to a home country he has few memories of and stepping unknowingly into a world he had never even dreamed of before.

    An introduction to magic, as well as a whole new society filled with drama, scandal and politics. It is easy for Harry to get washed away by the wave of it all as he tries to find a way through. His stubborn ability to tread water, however, may lead to him being the key to turning the tide, especially with friends like Neville and Luna by his side.

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    All of my history-based AUs, all in one place!

    This series is organized by intensity, not content. None of these stories are related to one another EXCEPT that they are all AUs that feature A LOT of history or are otherwise learning-intensive. They're organized from MOST (#1) to LEAST (last) learning heavy.

    October 2024 Ordering:
    The Fox's Bargain (1920s archeologists)
    Coquelicot (World War I/Craiglockhart hospital)
    Noble Blood (James I's court; Mary & George au)
    In The Stars (Monuments Men au)

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    A few snippets of the marriage of Daphne Greengrass and Harry Potter.

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    This is collection of short story commissions. My works and info can also be found here.

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    Suki believes that strict rules must govern society in order for it to function. She has lived by these rules for her entire life, weaved through them, twisted them to her advantage and played the long game of high society life with excellent results. She is a winner.

    Eve has never won anything. She scrapes by, with the help of friends that have replaced a lost family. She has her wit, her health and spirit enough to pull herself through difficult times. She adapts. The future offers new dreams, and rules will soon be rewritten.

    Both women have forged a path for themselves either inside or outside their expected roles. But when they meet, everything they knew (or thought they knew) about the world shatters, and they must race, desperately towards a place impossible- into the midnight sun.

    accompanying playlist

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    Lord Malfoy has been working for the department of mysteries since the Battle of Hogwarts in May of 1898. He proved his worth as a spy and double agent, and has been roundly celebrated as one of the Golden Quartet. Draco has never been satisfied, however, that the fifth member of their group was hidden from the public, and even less satisfied that no one in magical London has set eyes on Hermione Granger since the day after the battle, when she disappeared from St. Mungo’s.

    Now, in May of 1910, the muggle King Edward VII, has been killed by magic and Lord Draco Malfoy finds a surprise awaiting him when he consults with an expert at the British Museum while on the trail of the killers.

    Works somewhat within canon, books 1-4, if the books were set a hundred years before they were, then diverges.

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    It is the year 1910, and Rhaenyra Targaryen has just received a letter. Uncle Daemon has written to let her know her father was dead.

    The father she never knew anyway.

    But she is intrigued by the life of the nobility she has never been allowed into as an illegitimate daughter of a duke, and so she embarks on a journey to England, determined to connect with her father's side of the family.

    Little does she know she will get to do way more than that.

    or: Rhaenyra and Three Baelons AU

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    It’s early spring in the year 1912 and Frank Iero (17), a young man from an upper-class Edwardian family, is engaged to marry a young socialite named Victoria Anderson (18), heiress to the million dollar Anderson family fortune. The engagement manifested at the order of Frank’s father, Charles, in order for the debt-ridden Iero family to gain the Anderson family fortune and avoid bankruptcy, allowing them to maintain the lavish lifestyle Charles is unwilling to relinquish. Frank, his father and his fiancée are returning from their holiday in Europe on Titanic; back home to Pennsylvania where the wedding between Frank and Victoria will take place.

    Gerard Way (20) is a cunning young drifter from Wisconsin and a talented portrait artist who wins tickets for himself and his best friend, Raymond Toro (20), aboard Titanic in a lucky game of poker at a pub near the White Star Line pier in Southampton. Gerard is travelling to New York City to seek new opportunities and adventure and to make a name for himself as an artist.

    (Storyline based on Titanic (1997) screenplay by James Cameron).

    TL;DR: if you wanted the Frerard version of Titanic (1997), here it is.

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    Позднее лето, короткий отпуск в Сэ и случайная судьбоносная встреча.

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    Farmer with two children and substantial property in the West seeks a wife. Requirements are honesty, sobriety, a strong back and a thick skin. A practical arrangement will be made. Beauty is unnecessary and intimacy not expected. Interested parties should contact Mr. Jaime Lannister, Casterly Farm.

     

    Did this Mr. Lannister want a wife or a hired hand? But in either case what did she have to lose?

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    Louis smiles at Harry’s words, leaning into his touch. “Tell me again.”

    Smiling, Harry takes Louis into his arms. Pressing gentle kisses to his face, Harry murmurs, “In six months’ time, I will have my twenty-fifth birthday. On that day, my portion of the inheritance will become legally mine. And I plan that very day to announce to my family that I have found love.” Harry chuckles as he runs his lips lightly along Louis’ cheekbone. “That, in fact, I found love when I was twenty-one years old, and that I have loved and been loved every day since.”

    Or, an Edwardian AU where Harry is a young aristocratic lord and Louis is a working class dairy farmer. Secrets are a necessary part of their relationship, but Louis has one that could topple their whole world.

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    INITALLY POSTED ON WATTPAD - @zyphqr01

     

    It's the beginning of the 20th Century. Max Mayfield and Jane Hopper, two young girls living in extreme poverty, find comfort in each other's company. After years of psychological trauma they're on the streets, relying on the population's generosity to keep them alive.

    One night, close to giving up, an old wealthy man takes them in and promises them shelter. But would they be safe, or was the man not all he was made up to be? Will he be their saviour, or will their fate finally catch up to them?

    An Elmax Story
    Contains mature themes

    Updates every Saturday

    Started: 13/02/25
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    Lady Hermione Granger has been reared up in society, to marry well and be a good housewife, like any good Edwardian lady, but that's far from what she wants. When a handyman by the name of Ronald Weasley joins the house staff, utterly disarming her from the moment they first meet, he might just be the opportunity she needs to break loose and choose her own destiny.

    Lord Draco Malfoy has a secret— a secret he knows would cost him everything if it ever saw the light. But it's getting harder and harder to keep it from his father, because Draco keeps bumping into a pair of emerald eyes and a head of lush black hair, and he can't pretend his knees don't buckle at the sight. Which would be quite alright, if not for one small problem: it's not a woman they belong to.

    Two tales of forbidden love, set in Edwardian England.

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    “Oh, Christ,” he blurts out and drops the damned pocket watch that has caused the whole sequence of events. Because this is one of the many guest rooms that dots the halls of the Mountchristen residence hosting the bride-to-be, Miss Holleran, for tomorrow’s wedding…

    And she’s kissing the groom’s sister.

    Or, the one in which Henry wallows the fact that his crush is marrying someone else, until he finds out not everything is as it seems.

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    “What are you doing?”

    “What do you mean?”

    “That thing? Makin’ everything all fuzzy. Are you a witch?”

    Tony laughed. “Now why would I be a witch?”

    Peter pouted. “Well, books can’t get everything right.”

    Tony placed his fingers along the indents of claw marks. His expression turned into something Peter couldn’t place. Peter hesitated, before sticking his own hand out, running his fingers along the grooves, just behind Tony’s.

    “That’s because he took you, when you were only little. Not even old enough for your first shift. Now, your wolf has finally decided it wants out.”

    Tony looked down at the boy, and he suddenly felt like he knew the answer. Like he’d known it since this conversation began.

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  19. 80

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    Blaine is the second son of the earl of Westerville, and is considered the spare heir. After his 18th birthday, he attends the London Season to fulfill his duty of finding a wife. He soon realizes he is more attracted to the new footman. Kurt, who has just arrived at Westerville Abbey to work alongside his father, becomes equally as smitten with the earl’s youngest son. Will Blaine and Kurt be able to overcome their class differences in 1910s England? Will their forbidden love survive WW1? A Downton Abbey inspired historical Klaine AU.

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    After the war that sundered her family and tore her homeland apart, Sansa had thought a loveless marriage to a near-stranger a small price to pay for her honor, her safety, and, above all, Winterfell. Over a year later, she begins to wonder if that's really all she wants out of life.

    Then her husband falls ill.

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